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THE NEWSLETTER
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
Number 59 Chapel Hill, North Carolina Autumn 2010
GREETINGS FROM THE CHAIR
During the past year the Department of History, like the rest of the university, experienced the cumulative effects of the so-called
“Great Recession.” Because of the speed, extent, and severity of the recession, administrators initially could only react to conditions.
During the past year we could begin to assess the long term implications of the new economic reality in which universities operate.
The old mantra of “doing more with less” will not suffice in this new environment. Instead, this department has had to ponder its
missions and how it uses virtually all of the resources at its disposal. During this coming year the History faculty should complete the
process of aligning the department’s mission with its resources. To date we have carefully and prudently reduced both the size of the
incoming graduate class and the number of “fixed term” (adjunct) faculty. Despite these responses, made necessary by a substantial
and permanent budget cut, the department has managed to make approximately the same number of seats available in History classes.
That the department weathered the past year is a testament to the hard work of many members, but especially Associate Chair
Miles Fletcher and the Director of Graduate Studies Melissa Bullard. Miles tweaked (and tweaked and tweaked) our course offerings
to minimize any disruptions and to maximize seats; Melissa oversaw a particularly challenging graduate admissions season during
which we had to distribute fewer fellowships to the largest pool of applicants in recent memory (and perhaps ever). The department
owes a large debt to both Miles and Melissa. Miles, at least, can enjoy a respite from long years of service to the department while
Kathleen DuVal, the new Director of Undergraduate Studies, and Jay Smith, the new Associate Chair, assume his former duties.
They will be joined by Lloyd Kramer, who will return to the helm after a much deserved year on fellowships.
A further word about the record of service by History faculty is in order. In addition to serving on editorial boards and program
committees each year, members of this department perform important duties not only on this campus but also in national and
international settings. For example, Peter Coclanis (Economic history) is now the Director of the newly established Global Research
Institute. Jim Leloudis (US and North Carolina) continues to serve as Associate Dean for Honors and Director of the James M.
Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence. Wayne Lee (Military) is the Director of the Program in Peace, War, and Defense.
Beyond the confines of Chapel Hill, Richard Kohn (Military) is serving on a major Department of Defense quadrennial defense
review. Richard Talbert (Ancient) chairs the Advisory Council to the School of Classical Studies at the American Academy in
Rome. Harry Watson (Antebellum US) is simultaneously the President of the Historical Society of North Carolina and the president-elect
of the Society for Historians of the Early Republic.
The department continued its out-reach during the past year. It sponsored both the Project for Historical Education (regular
seminars for high school history teachers) and the annual public lecture on African American History. This year’s speaker was
William P. Jones, Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a graduate of UNC’s History Department. The
author of The Tribe of Black Ulysses: African American Lumber Workers in the Jim Crow South, Prof. Jones spoke on the “Unknown
Origins of the March on Washington: Civil Rights Politics and the Black Working Class.” Other well-attended events hosted by the
department included a major workshop on "Gender and Empire - Comparative Perspectives," organized by Chad Bryant and Karen
Hagemann.
CAROLINA ALUMNI RECEPTION
Please join us for an Alumni Reception at the annual meeting of the Southern Historical Association in Charlotte, NC. This year we
are co-sponsoring the event with the Duke History Department on Friday, November 5, 2010, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at The
Westin Charlotte. We look forward to seeing you there. We will also co-sponsor a UNC-CH and Duke Reception at the AHA meeting
in Boston, MA. More information on the AHA event will be available later in the fall.
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GREETINGS FROM THE CHAIR, CONT.
Especially gratifying evidence of the robust health of our program was gathered by the National Research Council in its study of
graduate programs. This department’s graduate program ranks very favorably with its peers in most important measures. Even a
cursory glance at the activities of our graduate students during the past year will confirm the NRC’s data. Our students delivered
papers at conferences abroad and across the country, published articles (including several award winning articles), and organized and
hosted what has developed into one of the best regional conferences on African American history. More information on the
accomplishments of our graduate students can be found below in this Newsletter.
Despite the budget exigencies, the department conducted two successful searches this year, adding colleagues in areas of
importance for both our graduate and undergraduate programs. Professor Susan D. Pennybacker has moved from Trinity College to
become the new Poston Chair of British History. Prof. Pennybacker has written extensively on modern British history; her most recent
book is a major study of transnational and multi-racial reform circles in interwar Britain entitled From Scottsboro to Munich: Race
and Political Culture in 1930s Britain. She will teach classes in British history, a field that badly needs new blood after the passing of
Richard Soloway and the retirement of Barbara Harris.
We are also pleased to welcome Flora Cassen, who will be an Assistant Professor of Medieval Jewish History and the Van der
Horst Scholar. Prof. Cassen is moving from the University of Vermont. She received her B.A. in Law and History from the Free
University of Brussels (1999), her M.A. in Comparative History from Brandeis University (2000), and completed her Ph.D. in History
and Judaic Studies at New York University. Next year she will be on fellowship at Columbia University while she revises her
manuscript on “The Yellow Badge in Renaissance Italy: A Social and Political Study of Anti-Jewish Discrimination” for publication.
Also joining the faculty this year is Marcus Bull, the Mellon Professor of Medieval History. Prof. Bull accepted an offer from the
department last year but remained at his previous institution, the University of Bristol, until this summer. Prof. Bull has written
important works on knightly piety, medieval miracles, and the Middle ages more broadly, as well as numerous articles and editing
three major collections. The arrival of Profs. Bull and Cassen will be an important addition to the ranks of scholars of our energetic
but understaffed pre-modern faculty and a testament to the department’s commitment to maintain strength in the field.
Prof. Tania String, Prof. Bull’s wife, will also join the department as an Adjunct Associate Professor. Prof. String received her
PhD from the University of Texas in Art History (1996) and is the author of the acclaimed Art and Communication in the Reign of
Henry VIII (2008), the co-editor of two works, and a contributor to numerous collections and journals. She also has organized major
exhibits and contributed to exhibition catalogs. She is currently completing a book on “Masculinity and the Male Body in Renaissance
Art.” Prof. String will divide her time between the departments of History and Art.
The ranks of our Latin American faculty will expand with the addition of Prof. Miguel La Serna. A specialist in modern Latin
America, especially Peru, Miguel La Serna received his B.A. from UC, Davis (2002) and his MA and PhD from UC, San Diego
(2008). Miguel is already a familiar and welcome colleague after spending the past two years on a postdoctoral fellowship here in the
department.
These additions to our faculty, regrettably, have been matched by departures of valued colleagues. Dani Botsman and Crystal
Feimster have accepted positions in Asian History and African American history, respectively, at Yale University. Ahmed El
Shamsy will be moving to the department of Near East Studies at the University of Chicago. And Yasmin Saikia has accepted an
endowed professorship in peace studies at Arizona State University. Our best wishes to each of them.
The faculty was highly productive during the past year. In the succeeding pages can be found a litany of new books, articles,
essays, edited collections produced by this faculty. So too can be found an enviable list of awards and honors garnered by our
colleagues. Various faculty have received recognitions that warrant specific mention. Prof. Don Raleigh (Soviet) received the
Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Russian and East European Institute at Indiana University. Prof. Jim Leloudis (US and North
Carolina) was promoted to full professor. Sarah Shields (Middle East) was awarded the Bowman and Gray Term Professorship for
her distinguished record of teaching. She also has received fellowships from the ACLS, SSRC, and the NEH. Louise McReynolds
(Russia) has been awarded both NEH and Guggenheim fellowships. Fred Naiden (Ancient) has been awarded a fellowship at the
National Humanities Center, and Cynthia Radding (colonial Latin America) also received a fellowship from the National Humanities
Center as well as one from the John Carter Brown Library.
Other awards and accomplishments are described in the following pages, where you will also find summaries of the diverse
activities of our undergraduate and graduate students, emeriti faculty, and alumni. Taken together, these accumulated activities make
the History Department an exceptionally vibrant center for scholarship, teaching, and engagement with public audiences. And the
generous financial support of our many friends and alumni plays a vital role in the Department’s health, especially when this state and
university continue to face acute financial problems. I thank everyone who contributes to the work of the UNC History Department
and helps to sustain it.
W. Fitzhugh Brundage, Interim Chair
2009 - 2010
SOME NEWS OF THE FACULTY
CHRISTOPHER BROWNING’s book Remembering Survival: Inside a Nazi Slave Labor Camp was published by W.W. Norton in
January. He also published a review article “Evocation, Analysis, and ‘the Crisis of Liberalism’” in History and Theory. He spoke at
Birkbeck College, the Wiener Library, and the German Historical Institute in London and delivered a paper at a conference on Nazi
slave labor in Berlin. He also gave presentations at Stetson University, Pacific Lutheran University, Duke University, and the Virginia
Holocaust Museum. Email: cbrownin@email.unc.edu.
FITZ BRUNDAGE anticipated accomplishing much more than he did this past year. He published “Contentious and Collected:
Memory’s Future in Southern History” in the Journal of Southern History (August 2009) and completed a forthcoming essay on the
place of the Civil War in contemporary African American art. But he made much less progress than intended on “Torture in American
History: The Long View,” a book manuscript on the history of torture in the United States from the age of European contact to the
contemporary “war on terror.” He gave lectures at Wabash College, Park University, University of Pittsburgh, and North Dakota State
University, as well as the keynote address at a conference on “John Brown, Slavery, and the Legacies of Revolutionary Violence in
Our Own Time,” at Yale University. He presented work at the University of Sydney in Australia and the National University of
Singapore. He also served on the Program Committee for the 2011 American Historical Association Annual Meeting. Finally, he
served as interim chair of the History Department. Email: brundage@email.unc.edu.
CHAD BRYANT spent the year on research and study leave at the National Humanities Center, where he continued work on his book
project, “Encountering Prague: History and Place in a Central European City.” An article published by the Austrian History Yearbook,
“Into an Uncertain Future: Railroads and Vormärz Liberalism in Brno, Vienna, and Prague,” received special commendation from the
R. John Rath article prize committee of the Center for Austrian Studies. In the past year he spoke about the fall of Communism at the
Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies annual conference and about travel and Czech nationalism in Prague at the “Cities
and Nationalisms” conference sponsored by the Centre for Metropolitan History in London. This summer Bryant traveled to Prague
where, thanks to a grant from the Center for European Studies, he conducted further research on his book project—research that he
will integrate into his classes, including HI 260 “Eastern Europe from the Enlightenment to the Present.”
Email: bryantc@email.unc.edu.
MELISSA MERIAM BULLARD has continued as Director of Graduate Studies for the department. Cuts to UNC’s instructional
budget have presented significant challenges for managing the graduate program, and she is very happy it has been possible to arrange
funding for an entering class of eighteen new students in 2010. In March Bullard delivered the keynote address at the Mid-Atlantic
Renaissance and Reformation conference held at Washington and Lee University entitled “The Secrets of a Renaissance Merchant in
his Studiolo,” which explored the beginnings of private fine arts collections and values associated with them in the Renaissance. She
also completed an essay to appear next year on “William Roscoe’s Renaissance in America,” part of her on-going interest in the
Transatlantic Renaissance. Email: mbullard@email.unc.edu.
PETER A. COCLANIS published the following pieces this year: “Two Cheers for Revolution: The Virtues of Regime Change in
World Agriculture” Historically Speaking 10 (June 2009); “’Everything Also I Want’: Another Look at Consumer Culture in
Contemporary Singapore,” Business and Economic History On-Line 7 (2009); “Globalism Grounded: The South in/and/versus the
World,” Diplomatic History 33 (September 2009); “Tangible Global Competency,” International Educator 18 (November-December
2009); “Field Work by the Sage of East Tennessee,” Reviews in American History 37 (December 2009); “A City of Frenzied
Shoppers? Reinterpreting Consumer Behavior in Contemporary Singapore,” The Journal of the Historical Society 9 (December 2009);
“No One Talks to the Generals,” Strategic Insights 8 (December 2009); “The Virtues of Agricultural Revolution,” World History 199,
no. 6 (December 2009) [in Chinese]; “The Hidden Dimension: ‘European’ Treaties in Global Perspective, 1500-1800,” Historically
Speaking 11 (January 2010); “The Audacity of Hope: Economic History Today,” AHA Perspectives in History 48 (January 2010);
“Russia’s Demographic Crisis and Gloomy Future,” The Chronicle Review: A Weekly Magazine of Ideas in The Chronicle of Higher
Education, February 19, 2010; (with Mart Stewart) “Precarious Paddies: The Uncertain, Unstable, and Insecure Lives of Rice Farmers
in the Mekong Delta,” Proceedings, International Conference on Environmental Change, Agricultural Sustainability, and Economic
Development in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam (March 2010); “Introduction,” in Twilight in the Rice Fields: Letters of the Heyward
Family, 1862-1871, ed. Allen H. Stokes and Margaret Belser Hollis (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2010). He also
published the following essays on sports: “SEC Talent Edge a Speed Trap,” Chicago Tribune, November 21, 2009; “Peppers to the
Rescue? SLAM Online, March 19, 2010; “Peppers to the Rescue? Part 2: The Rose Connection,” SLAM Online, March 22, 2010. In
addition, he published seven op-ed pieces: one in the Wall Street Journal (February 3, 2010), three in the Raleigh News & Observer,
and three in the Durham Herald-Sun. He published eight book reviews in 2009-2010—five in academic journals and three in the
Raleigh News & Observer. He presented a paper at the annual meeting of the Business History Conference (Milan, Italy, June 2009)
and was on two roundtables at the 2010 meeting of the American Historical Association (San Diego, January 2010). He also presented
papers at Koc University (Istanbul, Turkey, June 2010), King’s College London (October 2009), and at Can Tho University (Can Tho,
Vietnam, March 2010). In September 2009 he debated Pulitzer Prize winner Stanley L. Engerman (on slavery and the Civil War) in a
program sponsored by the University of South Carolina and South Carolina Educational TV (the program was aired in November
2009), and in February 2010 delivered the Salameno Distinguished Lecture at Stonehill College in Easton, Massachusetts. Closer to
home, he presented papers at the Triangle Economic History Workshop (October 2009) and at the Carolina Population Center
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(October 2009), and he also lectured in Bradenton, Florida (November 2009) in the OAH Distinguished Lecturer Series. He serves on
the editorial boards of the following journals—Agricultural History, Enterprise and Society, the Journal of Interdisciplinary History,
and Southern Cultures—and is Associate Editor of the Journal of the Historical Society. He served on book prize committees for the
Agricultural History Society and the Economic History Association, is a trustee of the Business History Conference, 2d Vice President
of the Southern Industrialization Project, and serves on a committee in the Southern Historical Association. In April 2010 he
participated in an external review of the History Department at the University of Delaware, and continues to serve on the Singapore
Ministry of Education’s International Expert Panel. In December 2009 he moved from his position as Associate Provost for
International Affairs at UNC-Chapel Hill to become the first Director of UNC’s newly established Global Research Institute. He
continues to travel widely, and during the 2009-2010 academic year made three trips to Singapore, two to the U.K., and single trips to
Italy, Turkey, Hong Kong, Thailand, and Myanmar. Email: coclanis@unc.edu.
KATHLEEN DUVAL published a chapter on “The Mississippian Peoples’ Worldview” in Geography and Ethnography: Perceptions
of the World in Pre-Modern Societies, edited by UNC History Professor Richard Talbert and Kurt A. Raaflaub. For the Fourth of July
(2009), she wrote an Op-Ed in the New York Times titled “Life, Liberty and Benign Monarchy?”. DuVal’s article “Indian
Intermarriage and Métissage in Colonial Louisiana” (William and Mary Quarterly, 2008) won the A. Elizabeth Taylor Prize for the
best article in southern women’s history from the Southern Association for Women Historians and the Joan Jensen-Darlis Miller Prize
for best article in western gender history from the Coalition for Western Women’s History and the Western History Association, and it
received honorable mention for the best article in the field of ethnohistory from the American Society for Ethnohistory. She gave talks
at Indiana University, the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and the annual Organization
of American Historians meeting. She serves on the board of UNC’s Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) program, the
Advisory Council of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR), and the Board of Editors of the Journal of
the Early Republic and the Arkansas Historical Quarterly. She co-organizes the Triangle Early American History Seminar (TEAHS),
which meets monthly in RTP. On campus, she welcomed first-year students by giving the “professors’ perspective” talk at orientation,
and she organized the History Department’s contribution to the UNC Admissions Office’s Explore Carolina Program. Among her
other classes, she very much enjoyed teaching the Honors in History seminar, leading a group of senior history majors in writing their
honors theses. Email: duval@email.unc.edu.
AHMED EL SHAMSY contributed a chapter on early Islamic theology and legal theory, titled “The Wisdom of God’s Law: Two
Theories,” to a Festschrift volume in honor of Bernard Weiss (forthcoming from Brill). He presented a paper on medieval Islamic
education at the meeting of the American Oriental Society, and another on early twentieth-century legal reform in Egypt at a
workshop at Duke University. In November, he received the Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Award of the Middle East Studies
Association for his 2009 dissertation on the history of Islamic law. Email: elshamsy@email.unc.edu.
BILL FERRIS published a book on Mississippi blues musicians and artists entitled, Give My Poor Heart Ease (UNC Press, 2009).
With Glenn Hinson of UNC’s American Studies Department, he co-edited The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture Volume 14:
Folklife (UNC Press, 2009). He also wrote a piece on “The Devil and His Blues: James ‘Son Ford’ Thomas” for the journal Southern
Cultures (Fall 2009). He exhibited his black-and-white photographs from his new book at UNC (Center for the Study of the American
South, Fall 2009; Davis Library, Spring 2010) and at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans (April-July 2010). For the
2009 Appalachian Music Symposium in Cashiers, North Carolina, he delivered a talk on Appalachian Music and Culture (May 2009).
He delivered the keynote address at the Southern Governors’ Association’s 75th Anniversary Celebration at Roosevelt’s Little White
House in Warm Springs, Georgia (November 2009). In February, 2010, he spoke on interpretations of the blues as a democratization
of information to the Phi Theta Kappa annual Faculty Scholars conference in Jackson, Mississippi. Also in February, 2010, he
delivered a talk to a public audience in Washington, DC on his fieldwork and findings in Mississippi as part of the Library of
Congress’s Botkin Lecture Series. He delivered a public address and presented the Maine Humanities Council’s Constance H. Carlson
Public Humanities Prize to Dr. Joseph Conforti (April 2010). Ferris also organized visits to UNC by Professor Michael Moloney (New
York University), speaking on Irish-Jewish collaboration in Tin Pan Alley; keyboardist Jojo Hermann (Widespread Panic), speaking
on the development of modern New Orleans piano styles; and Congressman John Spratt (D-SC), speaking on current health care
legislation and its relationship to the South. Email: wferris@unc.edu.
W. MILES FLETCHER completed his sixth year as the Associate Chair and Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Department.
In March, he presented a paper, “Dreams of Transformation and the Reality of Economic Crisis: Keidanren in the Era of the ‘Bubble’
and the ‘Lost Decade,’ 1985-1995,” at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies.
Email: wmfletch@email.unc.edu.
KAREN HAGEMANN finished her work on three edited volumes that present results of the two large comparative research projects
she directed between 2004-05 and 2008-09: 1) “The German Half-Day Model: A European Sonderweg?” The ‘Time Politics’ of
Public Education in Post-war Europe: An East-West Comparison,” funded by the Volkswagen (VW) Foundation, and 2) “Nations,
Borders, Identities: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in European Experiences and Memories,” funded by the Arts and
Humanities Research Council and the German Research Foundation. Two of the volumes are in print: Gender, War, and Politics:
Transatlantic Perspectives, 1775 – 1830, ed. with Gisela Mettele and Jane Rendall (Houndsmills and Basingstoke: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2010); and Children, Families and States: Time Policies of Child Care, Preschool and Primary Schooling in Europe, ed.
with Konrad H. Jarausch and Cristina Allemann-Ghionda (Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books, 2010); and one is in the final state
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of production: War Memories: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in 19th and 20th Century Europe, ed. with Alan Forrest and
Etienne François (Houndsmills and Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). She also published an article in the leading German
pedagogical journal on “Die Ganztagsschule als Politikum: Die westdeutsche Entwicklung in gesellschafts- und
geschlechtergeschichtlicher Perspektive,” Zeitschrift für Pädagogik (Supplement) 55, no 1 (2009): 209-29, and published a book
chapter on “The Military and Masculinity: Gendering the History of the French Wars, 1792–1815,” in War in an Age of Revolution,
1775-1815, ed. Roger Chickering and Stig Förster (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. 331-52.
Finally she organized a two-day series of panels on “Gendering the Revolutionary Era, 1750-1850 - Comparative Perspectives” for
the Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, 1750-1850 in Charleston, SC, in February 2010, and, together with the UNC Institute for
Arts and Humanities, a series of events (Mary Stevens Reckford Lecture on European Studies, graduate reading seminar and two-day-workshop)
on “Gendering Historiographies of Nation and Empire” and “Gender and Empire – Comparative Perspectives” with
Professor Catherine Hall (University College London) in March 2010. Email: hagemann@email.unc.edu.
KONRAD H. JARAUSCH stayed put in Chapel Hill last year, but spent the summer in Berlin as usual. Because of the 20th
anniversary of the fall of the Wall, he gave over half a dozen keynotes from Haifa in Israel to Chicago, Madison and Seattle, not to
mention Iowa City and Washington DC. At the same time he completed editing with several German colleagues a volume on
"Gebrochene Wissenschaftskulturen. Universität imd Politik im 20. Jahrhundert" that is just coming out with the Vandenhoeck and
Ruprecht Verlag. Work on the English edition of his father's letters and the third volume of the history of the Humboldt University
(1945-2000) for its bicentennial is continuing. Otherwise he was happy to see another couple of students finish excellent dissertations.
Email: jarausch@email.unc.edu.
JOHN KASSON spent the academic year 2009-2010 at the National Humanities Center in Research Triangle Park, NC. With the
support of a John Medlin, Jr. Senior Fellowship, he worked on his book manuscript, tentatively titled, “The Little Girl Who Fought the
Great Depression: Shirley Temple and 1930s America.” Earlier, in June 2009, he served as co-Instructor (with Professors Karen Lucic
and Sean McCann) in a two-week workshop for secondary school teachers on the topic, “Becoming Modern: America, 1918-1929,”
held at the National Humanities Center. Over the course of the past year, he delivered portions of his research on his book-in-progress
at various forums. These included a paper, “’Mr. Gloom Be on Your Way’: Shirley Temple, Hollywood, and Emotional Recovery
during the Great Depression,” at a workshop on “Historical Constructions of Nations, Identities, and Ideologies through Popular
Culture,” held at the National University of Singapore in May 2009. He made a similar presentation at the US Study Centre at the
University of Sydney, also in May 2009. At the annual meeting of the American Studies Association in Washington, DC in November
2009, he presented a paper, “Sustaining a Smile in the Great Depression: Bill “Bojangles” Robinson.” He also gave public talks on his
work on Shirley Temple and the Great Depression at the North Carolina Museum of History, the Durham County Library, and
Carolina Meadows. John also served as consultant on women in twentieth-century American art for an on-line exhibition at the Hunter
Museum of American Art in Chattanooga, TN, and on a forthcoming exhibition on Houdini at the Jewish Museum in New York City.
Email: jfkasson@email.unc.edu.
RICHARD H. KOHN had another busy year, probably typical of faculty who think they will have more time for research and writing
in “phased retirement.”. He published two articles: “Tarnished Brass: Is the U.S. Military Profession in Decline?” World Affairs,
171(Spring 2009):73-83, and “Building Trust: Civil-Military Behaviors for Effective National Security,” in Suzanne Nielsen and Don
Snider, eds., American Civil-Military Relations: Realities and Challenges in the New Era (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press,
2009), 264-289. Another piece, in the 2009 summer issue of the Duke Law Journal, commented critically on an article on civil-military
relations by the former Bush Justice Department lawyer John Yoo. He was active lecturing on current civil-military relations
to a number of military and civilian audiences, and on the presidential war leadership of George W. Bush, as well as on military
professional ethics and to the Humanities Program and to alums of the University, on how the Vietnam War has been remembered. In
November he will be the faculty lecturer for an alumni/ae trip to Vietnam—information on the trip is on the Alumni Association
website. He also accepted appointment to a Department of Defense study group to review the 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review, a
review every four years required by Congress of the country’s defense strategy and force structure. Email: rhkohn@email.unc.edu.
LLOYD KRAMER used two much-appreciated research fellowships to support a year’s leave from teaching and administrative
duties. A Kenan fellowship from UNC enabled him to spend some time in Paris during the fall semester and to complete the
manuscript for a new book on the history of nationalism. He held a Chapman Family Fellowship in the spring semester at UNC’s
Institute for the Arts and Humanities, where he learned from the interdisciplinary faculty exchanges and made progress on a book-length
study of nineteenth-century French and American travel writers. Kramer also participated in a provocative conference on
contemporary intellectual history at Cornell University (which honored his long-ago graduate advisor, Dominick LaCapra, in
September 2009), presented a paper on the historian R. R. Palmer at the annual meeting of the Western Society for French History
(October 2009), and contributed a paper to the collaborative UNC-National University of Singapore conference on “History, Memory
and Popular Culture” (May 2010). He also gave talks at Central Michigan University and North Carolina Wesleyan College,
presented his recent research to the Triangle Area French Studies Seminar and the History Department’s lunchtime faculty
colloquium, and led a program on “Teaching the History of Human Rights” for the Department’s Project for Historical Education
(PHE). Finally, he returned to the position of History Department chair in July 2010—revitalized for a new three-year opportunity to
help lead UNC’s dynamic community of historians and thankful for Fitz Brundage’s departmental leadership over the past year.
E-mail: lkramer@email.unc.edu.
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CHRISTOPHER J. LEE taught during the fall semester and was on sabbatical during the spring semester, when he was the D. Earl
Pardue Faculty Fellow at the Institute for the Arts and Humanities. He used this time to complete his first book for Cambridge
University Press. In January, he was also a CNRS fellow at the Institute of French Studies at NYU, where he is participating in a
project on historical memory. He had an article appear in the Journal of Family History, entitled “Children in the Archives: Epistolary
Evidence, Youth Agency, and the Social Meanings of ‘Coming of Age’ in Interwar Nyasaland” (January 2010, Vol. 35 Issue 1, pp.
24-47), as well as forthcoming work accepted in the journals Research in African Literatures and Law and History Review. Chris also
had two op-ed pieces appear this year, one entitled “Fiscal Crises and the Question of Community” (The Chronicle of Higher
Education, April 2, 2010) and the second “Racist Undertones of the ‘Socialist’ Epithet” (The Christian Science Monitor, October 16,
2009). His edited volume on decolonization and the postcolonial politics of the Cold War, entitled Making a World After Empire: The
Bandung Moment and Its Political Afterlives (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2010), will appear over the summer. In addition to
teaching and publishing, Chris presented papers at the annual conference of the North American Conference on British Studies in
Lexington, Kentucky and at the University of Ilorin in Nigeria. He was also invited to speak at the conference From Bandung to
Tehran: Transnational Networks in the Postcolonial World in April at Williams College. Finally, he was co-chair of the bi-annual
conference of the Southeastern Regional Seminar in African Studies (SERSAS) entitled “Faith, Culture, and the Politics of Belonging
in Africa,” held at UNC’s Global Education Center in April. But he is most pleased to report that his former honors thesis advisee,
Diana Gergel, has been accepted into the PhD program in African history at the University of California, Berkeley, where she will
enroll this fall. Email: cjlee1@email.unc.edu.
WAYNE LEE spent this year adjusting to being the chair of the Curriculum in Peace, War, and Defense. The Curriculum now has
270+ majors and juggling their needs is a joy and challenge. He published "Using the Natives against the Natives: Indigenes as
'Counterinsurgents' in the British Atlantic, 1500-1800," in the UK's staff college journal Defence Studies. His next book, Barbarians
and Brothers: Anglo-American Warfare, 1500-1865, will appear in the spring of 2011 from Oxford University press. He also has two
edited volumes under way, both with NYU press, one is complete and in press, entitled Empires and Indigenes: Intercultural Alliance,
Imperial Expansion, and Warfare in the Early Modern World, and the other is Warfare and Culture in World History. He has written
essays for two additional edited volumes, one on "hybrid warfare" in sixteenth-century Ireland, and the other on the problem of war
termination at the end of the War of 1812. On the archaeological side, the Shala Valley Project received a write-up grant from the
School of Advanced Research in Santa Fe, NM, which allowed the participating authors to gather to revise and coordinate the ongoing
production of the project's forthcoming volume, for which he has written two chapters. The project also published its initial findings in
the online journal Internet Archaeology, entitled "Fort, Tower, or House? Building a Landscape of Settlement in the Shala Valley of
High Albania," it is available at http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue27/galaty_index.html. He gave invited lectures at the University of
Southern Mississippi, Ohio State University, the University of New Brunswick, and the city of Hampton, Va.
Email: welee@email.unc.edu.
LISA LINDSAY developed two new classes this year: an undergraduate honors seminar called “The United States and Africa,” and a
first year seminar called “African History through Popular Music.” She presented a paper called “Remembering His Country Marks:
An African American in 19th Century Yorubaland,” at the African Studies Association annual meeting in New Orleans in November
2009 and the African Diaspora Studies Symposium at North Carolina Central University in March 2010. In February 2010 she
presented a seminar to the department’s Project for Historical Education called “The Giants of Africa: Politics and Popular Culture in
South Africa and Nigeria.” Email: lalindsa@email.unc.edu.
ROGER LOTCHIN’s only professional contribution this year was a seminar with TISS, where I gave a talk and listened to
comments about my study of Japanese Americans in World War II. I argued that it was absurd, and bordered on ludicrous, to call the
camps "concentration camps'" and that the fact of race, as a motivating factor for creating the camps was overemphasized. I did not
argue that race played no role, only that its role has been exaggerated. That made a large part of the audience angry.
Email: rlotchin@email.unc.edu.
MALINDA MAYNOR LOWERY published her first book, Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South: Race, Identity, and the Making
of a Nation (UNC Press, 2010). In the Fall of 2009 she began a tenure-track appointment as Assistant Professor of History at UNC-Chapel
Hill, after holding a similar position at Harvard University for four years. In 2009 she published two articles, “Telling Our
Own Stories: Writing Lumbee History In the Shadow of the BAR,” American Indian Quarterly 33 (Fall 2009): 499-522; and “Indians,
Southerners, and Americans: Race, Tribe, and Nation During Jim Crow,” James A. Hutchins Lecture at UNC-Chapel Hill, 26
February 2009, Native South 2 (2009): 1-22. She also published three book reviews in the past year: Yaqui Homeland and Homeplace,
by Kirstin C. Erickson for American Indian Culture and Research Journal; Hawaiian Blood, by J. Kehaulani Kauanui, also for
AICRJ; and Choctaw Crime and Punishment, by Devon Mihesuah, for American Historical Review. She gave invited presentations at
Indiana University, the University of New Mexico, the Historical Society of North Carolina, and Harvard University, in addition to
conference presentations at the annual meetings of the American Society for Ethnohistory (October, 2009) and the Native American
and Indigenous Studies Association (May, 2010). She served as Co-Principal Investigator on two grants through UNC’s American
Indian Center, and as Faulty Director of “Study Aborad in the Cherokee Nation,” a program through the Burch Field Research
Seminars that will run in Summer 2011. She received funds for development of a service-learning, collaborative research course on
Lumbee History through the Center for Faculty Excellence/Lenovo Instructional Innovation Grants and the Ueltschi Service-Learning
Course Development Award. The course was first taught in Spring of 2010 and is available to the public at http://lumbee.web.unc.edu.
Her own research has received a Junior Faculty Development Award and a University Research Council grant. Her next book involves
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coal mining in the Choctaw Nation of Indian Territory in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She has been appointed to
the Program Committee of the Southern Historical Association’s 2011 Annual Meeting and nominated to serve on the Nominating
Committee of the American Society for Ethnohistory. She is actively exploring social media and digital technology as a platform for
engaging students and communities in Native American history; follow her on Twitter @malindalowery and visit her website,
http://malindamaynorlowery.wordpress.com.
TERENCE McINTOSH presented two papers in the North Carolina German Studies Seminar and Workshop Series: "Pietists,
Jurists, and the Disciplining of the Parish in Early Enlightenment Germany" (Chapel Hill, NC, 28 March 2010) and "Early Modern
Lutheran Pastors and the Stubborn Belief That They Could Remit Sins" (Greenville, NC, 10 April 2010). He served as commentator
of the session "Mixed Matches: Transgressive Unions in the German Literary Imagination" at the thirty-third annual meeting of the
German Studies Association (Arlington, VA, 10 October 2009). Email: terence_mcintosh@unc.edu.
LOUISE McREYNOLDS performed at more venues than usual this year. She gave papers at two conferences: the American
Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (November, Boston)and the Southern Slavic Conference (March, Gainesville). In
addition, she gave invited talks at Brock University, the University of Toronto, and the University of Southern California. Three
articles appeared in print: “The Murderer in the City: Narratives of Urbanism,” (in Russian), in Boris Kolonitskii and Mark Steinberg,
eds., The Cultures of the Cities of the Russian Empire at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (St. Petersburg: Evropeiskii dom);
“Demanding Men, Desiring Women and Social Collapse in the Films of Evgenii Bauer, 1913-1917,” in Studies in Russian and Soviet
Cinema 3:2 (2009): 145-56; and “Who Cares Who Killed Ivan Ivanovich? Detective Fiction in Late Imperial Russia,” in Russian
History/Russe Histoire 36:3 (2009): 391-406. Most important (for her), she received grants from the National Endowment for the
Humanities and the John S. Guggenheim Foundation that will permit her to take next year off and write her book on sensational
murder in late imperial Russia. Email: louisem@email.unc.edu.
FRED NAIDEN published “Spartan Naval Performance in the Decelean War,” in the Journal of Military History. He also gave a talk
on the Spartan military, “Spartan Officers, Unspartan Men,” at Tulane University, and presided over a panel on ancient military
history at the annual conference of the Association of Ancient Historians (AAH). In another field of interest, ancient religion, he
received a 2010-2011 grant from the National Humanities Center to work on a monograph on ancient animal sacrifice, “Smoke
Signals for the Gods.” He gave two talks on religious topics, “The Stranger at the Gate,” at the University of Illinois at Champaign-
Urbana, and “Alexander the Great as a Religious Leader,” at the AAH. Alexander was also the subject of a talk, “Dividing the
Subcontinent” at a conference entitled, “Along the Hindu Kush,” in New Orleans, La. This conference dealt with the origins of
Pakistan. An essay on ancient law, “The Legal (and other) Trials of Orestes,” appeared in Law and Drama in Classical Athens, a
collection of essays published by Duckworth. Email: naiden@email.unc.edu.
THEDA PERDUE published Race and the Atlanta Cotton States Exposition of 1895 (University of Georgia Press) and “Native
Americans, African Americans, and Jim Crow” in IndiVisible: African-Native American Lives in the Americas (Smithsonian
Institution Press). She lectured at East Carolina University, Reinhardt College, the Atlanta History Center, and Marshall University.
She is a member of the editorial boards of the American Indian Quarterly and Southern Cultures. She serves on the Executive Board
of the Organization of American Historians, and she is the vice-president (and president-elect) of the Southern Historical Association.
Email: tperdue@email.unc.edu.
CYNTHIA RADDING advanced work on her book project, entitled “Bountiful Deserts and Imperial Shadows: Seeds of Knowledge
and Corridors of Migration in Northern New Spain.” She obtained two fellowships for academic year 2010-2011 to support her
research and writing: the Helen Watson Buckner Memorial Fellowship, at the John Carter Brown Library, for June-September 2010,
and the Donnelley Family Fellowship at the National Humanities Center for October 2010-June 2011. She presented conference
papers at the American Society for Ethnohistory, The American Historical Association, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México,
and the Rocky Mountain Conference for Latin American Studies, and she presented two invited lectures at the Universidade Federal
de Goiás (Brazil). Radding developed two new courses for the undergraduate curriculum on Mexican History, taught a graduate
seminar on the methods of ethnohistory applied to Latin America, and contributed a guest lecture to one of the undergraduate course
clusters on War and Culture in the Age of Revolution. She led two senior research seminars, one for the History Department on
environmental history and the other for the Latin American Studies Program on frontiers and borderlands.
Email: radding@email.unc.edu.
DONALD J. RALEIGH taught a packed freshman seminar on Gorbachev and the new Russia, an upper division course on Soviet
history since 1929, a survey of modern Russia since 1861, and a graduate reading colloquium on Soviet history. He participated in the
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies annual meeting in Boston, and the regional affiliate conference in
Gainesville. At the meeting in Boston, the Russian and East European Institute at Indiana University presented him with its
Distinguished Alumnus Award. Raleigh spent several weeks in Moscow last summer tying up loose ends on a long-term oral history
project, Soviet Baby Boomers: A Portrait of Russia’s Cold War Generation, for which he received a contract from Oxford University
Press. During the year he completed the manuscript and packed it off to Oxford. A book review he authored appeared in the Journal of
Ecclesiastical History. He also launched work on a festschrift in honor of his dissertation mentor, and is currently exploring several
new book-length studies. He continues to serve on the editorial boards of the Journal of Social History, Russian Studies in History,
Soviet and Post-Soviet Review, and the Association of Researchers of Russian Society in the 20th century. Email: djr@email.unc.edu.
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DONALD REID published Les Mineurs de Decazeville: Historique de la désindustrialisation (Decazeville: A.S.P.I.B.D., 2009) and
“Didier Daeninckx: Raconteur of History,” South Central Review 27:1-2 (Spring-Summer 2010): 39-60.
Email:dreid1@email.unc.edu.
SARAH SHIELDS organized three weekend workshops and eleven evening seminars as part of the Sawyer Seminar program funded
by a grant from the Andrew Mellon Foundation. The topic for the year was Diversity and Conformity in Muslim Societies, and
discussions included a wide geographic range (Africa, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East). With co-Principal Investigator Banu
Gokariksel (Geography), she taught a graduate course that ran concurrently with the Sawyer Seminar and took advantage of the
national and international scholars who participated in the program. http://cgi.unc.edu/research/mellon-sawyer/09-10/index.php
Shields published “Mosul, the Ottoman Legacy, and the League of Nations,” in the International Journal of Contemporary Iraqi
Studies. She traveled to Florence, Italy to participate in the annual Mediterranean Research Meeting sponsored by the Schuman
Center; her paper, the first from her new research project, was “From Millet to Nation: The Limits of Consociational Resolutions for
Middle East Conflict.” Shields returned to Kansas State University to talk with campus groups and present her new research on human
rights, "Human Rights and the Israel/Palestine Conflict: An Imperial Problem." She continued her presentations to North Carolina
public audiences, participating in a seminar with the UNC Program in the Humanities and Human Values on “Changing Perceptions
of the Middle East: New Medias, New Audiences,” and discussing the Israel-Palestine conflict at the First Baptist Church in Raleigh
and Binkley Baptist Church in Chapel Hill. She received a Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies/Social Science
Research Council/National Endowment for the Humanities for 2010-2011 to continue her research on the emergence of identity
politics in the Middle East between the two World Wars. Email: sshields@email.unc.edu.
RICHARD TALBERT published with Kurt Raaflaub (Brown University) a wide-ranging volume, Geography and Ethnography:
Perceptions of the World in Pre-Modern Societies (Wiley-Blackwell), for which he wrote the introduction and a chapter “The Roman
Worldview: Beyond Recovery ?” A much appreciated contribution to this volume is also made by Kathleen DuVal, who wrote on
“The Mississippian Peoples’ Worldview”. Talbert’s chapter “Plutarch’s Sparta: Lieux de mémoire, trous de mémoire” appeared in
Athens-Sparta: Contributions to the Research on the History and Archaeology of the Two City-States edited by Nikolaos Kaltsas
(2009), and his overview “Emperor” appeared in the Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome, vol. 3 (2010). He contributed
a lengthy discussion of the Neue Pauly Historischer Atlas der antiken Welt to Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2009. Proofing of his
monograph Rome’s World: the Peutinger Map Reconsidered and preparation of its complex digital components for simultaneous
publication with the printed volume have proven very exacting and time-consuming tasks throughout the year. He accepted two
invitations to speak about the Artemidorus papyrus map, at the Warburg Institute, London, and at a conference hosted by the Società
Geografica Italiana, Rome. For the panel “Material Culture in the History Classroom: Techniques and Methods” at the 2010 American
Philological Association Annual Meeting (Anaheim, CA), he spoke on “Calibrating Cartographic Horizons for Today’s Ancient
History Classes.” In addition, he lectured on “Sparta: the Joker in the Pack” for Colgate University’s Institute for Philosophy, Politics,
and Economics; undertook a major review for Denmark’s Grundforskningsfond; chaired a session at the 2009 Association of Ancient
Historians Annual Meeting (Vancouver, Canada); and agreed to serve as Advisory Board member for the forthcoming Wiley-
Blackwell Encyclopedia of Ancient History. In Chapel Hill he had the honor to deliver the 2009 Program in the Humanities and
Human Values E. M. Adams Lecture, “Rome and the Power of Creative Cartography, AD 300-1500.” He accepted a further term as
Chair of the Program’s Faculty Advisory Board. He was also elected to a second three-year term as Chair of the Advisory Council to
the School of Classical Studies, American Academy in Rome. He continues as co-editor of the UNC Press series Studies in the History
of Greece and Rome, and as American Journal of Philology’s associate editor for ancient history. For his involvement with the
Ancient World Mapping Center, see its report. Email: talbert@email.unc.edu.
MICHAEL TSIN published an article "Rethinking 'State and Society' in Late Qing and Republican China" in Jens Damm and
Mechthild Leutner, eds., China Networks [Berliner China-Hefte/Chinese History and Society, vol. 35], and in collaboration with his
co-authors completed the revisions for the 3rd edition of Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: A History of the Modern World from the
Mongol Empire to the Present that is due out in 2011. He presented a paper titled "Orientalism and Overseas Chinese" at the annual
meeting of the Association for Asian Studies that he is in the process of revising for publication; served as a book review editor for the
Journal of Asian Studies; and will be a fellow at the Institute for the Arts and Humanities in the fall, during which time he will
continue his work on the book manuscript "Identity and the Reconfiguration of Difference in Twentieth-Century China."
Email: tsin@email.unc.edu.
ZARAGOSA VARGAS wrote a chapter on Mexican American civil rights, “Challenges to Solidarity,” for the edited volume
Freedom Train Derailed: Anticommunism and Civil Rights, 1945-1960 (Palgrave-Macmillan Press, 2009). His book Crucible of
Struggle: A History of Mexican America from Colonial Times to the Present will be published by Oxford University Press in
September 2010. In April 2009, Zaragosa was on the plenary session, “Race, Labor and the City: Crises Old and New” at the Labor
and Working Class History Association Annual Meeting at Roosevelt University in Chicago, Illinois. In this same month, he gave the
lecture “The Other Struggle for Equal Rights” at The Long Civil Rights Movement Conference at University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill. In March 2010, he lectured on contemporary Latino immigration to the South, “Globalization from Below,” at the Latin
American Migration Conference, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. In April 2010, Zaragosa was on the plenary session,
“State of the Field: New Directions in Working Class History,” at the Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting in
Washington, DC. This year Vargas was appointed Contributing Editor for the journal Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the
Americas. He now serves on the Planning Committee for the Organization of American Historians 2012 Annual Meeting. And
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recently he was elected to the Executive Board of the Southern Labor Studies Association. Email: vargas@email.unc.edu.
HARRY L. WATSON returned from a year’s leave on July 1, 2009 and resumed directing the Center for the Study of the American
South. He continues as editor of the Center’s quarterly journal, Southern Cultures. In October, he chaired an external review
committee for the Department of History at the University of South Carolina, and participated in two NEH workshops on Andrew
Jackson at the Hermitage in Nashville, TN in the summer of 2010. This year he served as president of the Historical Society of North
Carolina and president-elect of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic. Email: hwatson@email.unc.edu.
BRETT WHALEN published of his first book, Dominion of God: Christendom and Apocalypse in the Middle Ages (Harvard
University Press, 2009). He also published an essay titled “Teaching the End of Days: Medieval Meets Modern Apocalypse in the
Classroom,” in The End of Days: Understanding the Apocalypse from Antiquity to Modernity (2009). Over the course of the year, he
delivered several conference papers and lectures, including at Leeds in the U.K. and for the UNC Adventures in Ideas seminar series.
Currently, he is revising his source-reader Pilgrimage in the Middle Ages for the University of Toronto Press, and starting to work on
The Medieval Papacy: A Brief History for Palgrave Macmillan. Email: bwhalen@email.unc.edu.
THE HISTORY DEPARTMENT WELCOMES OUR NEW FACULTY:
Marcus G. Bull Joseph Caddell Miguel La Serna
Susan D. Pennybacker Tatiana C. String
(Photo courtesy of Dorothy Handleman)
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UNC WORKSHOP SERIES “GENDER, POLITICS AND CULTURE IN EUROPE AND BEYOND”
Workshop on “Gender and Empire – Comparative Perspectives”
March 26 - 27, 2010, UNC Chapel Hill, Institute for the Arts and Humanities
This workshop explored the complex connections between gender and empire in a comparative perspective. Participants contrasted
British colonial rule in North America, the Caribbean and India; French rule in the Caribbean and Africa; Habsburg rule in Central-
Eastern Europe; the Spanish Empire and its rule in Latin America; and the rule of the Ottoman Empire in the Middle East during the
long nineteenth century. The speakers discussed the specific characteristics of the different empires and the function of the gender
order for their rule in the colonies. The analysis focused on the concepts of femininity and masculinity that justified imperial rule, the
attempts to establish gendered lines of demarcation between ruler and ruled, and the gendered legacies of imperialism that influenced
the processes of decolonization and nation-building. Speakers at this very well attended event were Catherine Hall (University College
London), who gave the keynote, Beth Baron (CUNY Graduate School, Center for Middle East Studies), Emily Burrill (UNC Chapel
Hill), Laurent Dubois (Duke University), Maureen Healy (Lewis & Clark University), Asunción Lavrin (Arizona State University),
and Adele Perry (University of Manitoba). The event was jointly sponsored by the University of North Carolina (Center for European
Studies, Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies; Department of Women’s Studies; History Department; Initiative for
Transoceanic 18th and 19th-Century Studies (TOS); Institute for the Studies of the Americas) and Duke University (Women's Studies
Program, Department of History). It was organized by Karen Hagemann (UNC Chapel Hill, History) in co-operation with Chad
Bryant (UNC, Department of History), Emily Burrill (UNC, Department of Women’s Studies), and the UNC Graduate Working
Group on Gender History.
AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY MONTH LECTURE
The Department of History sponsored its sixth annual African American History Month Lecture on February 17, 2010. We were
pleased to welcome back to Chapel Hill, UNC History Ph.D., William P. Jones who delivered a lecture entitled, “Unknown Origins of
the March on Washington: Civil Rights Politics and the Black Working Class.” Jones is Associate Professor of History at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of The Tribe of Black Ulysses: African American Lumber Workers in the Jim Crow
South, a book about African American industrial workers in the early-20th Century. He is currently researching a book on race in the
service sector after World War II. His talk kept the audience of students, faculty, staff, and community residents fully engaged and
sparked a lively discussion.
The lecture was held in the Hitchcock Room of the Sonja Haynes Stone Center and was funded by the History Department with
additional support from departments and organizations across the University, including: Black Student Movement; Center for the
Study of the American South; Southern Oral History Program; Department of African and Afro-American Studies; Johnston Center
for Undergraduate Excellence; Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs through the Diversity Incentive Fund; The Sonja Haynes
Stone Center; and the UNC School of Law.
We have begun planning an exciting program for February 2011 which will address the subject of African Americans and the Civil
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THE VISIT OF PROFESSOR JÜRGEN KOCKA
The German Studies Workshop and the Center for European Studies joined with the History Department to co-sponsor the campus
visit of Professor Jürgen Kocka from the Free University of Berlin. Professor Kocka, whose influential work on social history at the
University of Bielefeld (1973-1988) helped to shape the so-called “Bielefeld” approach to historical studies, spoke on “Fashion and
Truth in the Writing of History: The Last 50 Years.” He also met with UNC faculty and graduate students to discuss new trends in
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EMERITI FACULTY
STANLEY CHOJNACKI gave a paper at the Renaissance Society meeting. In addition two of his former graduate students from
UNC and two other colleagues in the field organized two sessions and a reception in his honor to celebrate his life's work and
mentoring. It was a wonderful occasion. Email: venetian@email.unc.edu.
BARBARA HARRIS delivered the Presidential Address at the North American Conference of British Studies in November 2009. It
will be published in the Journal of British Studies in the Fall 2010 issue. She also delivered a paper at the 2010 Renaissance Society of
America Conference in Venice in April. In June, she presented a paper at the Medieval and Early Modern London Seminar at the
Institute for Historical Research in London. All of these papers grow out of the research and writing she is doing for a current book
project, "The Fabric of Piety: Aristocratic English Women 1450-1550." Email: bharris@email.unc.edu.
MICHAEL MCVAUGH has been awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Emeritus Fellowship to produce an edition of the Speculum
medicine of the medieval physician Arnau de Vilanova, and is working on this during 2009- 2011. In addition, during the past year he
published (with Gerrit Bos) an edition of Maimonides, On Poisons and the Protection against Lethal Drugs (Provo, Utah: Brigham
Young University Press, 2009). He also published three papers: “The ‘Experience-Based Medicine’ of the Thirteenth Century,” Early
Science and Medicine 14 (2009), 105-30; “Historical Awareness in Medieval Surgical Treatises,” in Geschichte der
Medizingeschichtsschreibung, ed. Thomas Rütten, 2 vols. (Remscheid, 2009), vol. 1, 171-99; and “Towards a Stylistic Grouping of
the Translations of Gerard of Cremona,” Mediaeval Studies 71 (2009), 99-112. He delivered three invited papers to national and
international conferences: “ ‘Evidence-Based Medicine’ in the Middle Ages?”, to a colloquium on “The Temper of Evidence I: From
Antiquity to the Renaissance,” California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, 23 May 2009; “Turning the Chirurgia of Teodorico into
Catalan,” presented to the ICREA Conference “Ciència i Societat a la Corona d’Aragó,” Barcelona (Spain), 21 October 2009; and “On
the Individuality of the Medieval Translator,” to a conference on “Agents and Agency in Transmission, Translation and
Transformation,” McGill University, Toronto (Canada), 27 April 2010. Closer to home, he spoke on “Arabic into Latin (Or, Why
Medical Schools Got Started),” to a joint meeting of the Bullitt Medical History Club (UNC) and Trent Medical History Society
(Duke) held in Chapel Hill, 10 November 2009. Email: mcvaugh@email.unc.edu.
RICHARD W. PFAFF published The Liturgy in Medieval England: a History (620 pages; Cambridge University Press). At the
annual meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, this year in New Haven, a session was held in his honor and he was presented
with a Festschrift, The Study of Medieval Manuscripts of England, edited by George Hardin Brown and Linda Ehrsam Voigts
(Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, with Brepols), sixteen substantial essays by colleagues from three continents.
Email: pfaffrw@email.unc.edu.
GERHARD L. WEINBERG participated by giving papers or commenting on papers at conferences in Leeds (UK), Stuttgart and
Munich (Germany), Warsaw (Poland), Middle Tennessee State University, Liberty University and the National D-Day Memorial, the
German Studies Association, the Southern Historical Association, UNC-Charlotte, Hampden-Sydney College, and the National World
War II Museum. He gave invited lectures at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, High Point University, Central Michigan
University, Dutchess County Community College, the Pritzker Military Library, for the Humanities Program and World View, as well
as for the Naval War College and its extension program. He spent a week as a special visiting professor and gave a series of talks at
the University of Toronto. He was awarded the 2009 Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Writing of Military History by the Pritzker
Library and Foundation. The US Holocaust Memorial Museum published his talk, “Crystal Night 1938 as Experienced Then and as
Understood Now” in its series of Occasional Papers; his talk, “The Holocaust and the Nuremberg Trials” was published in Nancy
Rupprecht and Wendy Koenig (eds.), Holocaust Persecution: Responses and Consequences (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge
Scholars Publishing, 2010), pp. 132-41. Email: gweinber@email.unc.edu.
ALUMNI NEWS
TED ALTHOLZ (MA/1972/Cecil) and his team moved into their new offices at Merrill lynch’s flagship Atlanta office in November
2009. Ted, a Merrill first v.p., completed his thirty-third year in the investment industry last September.
CHRIS MYERS ASCH (MA/2000/Leloudis/PhD/2005/Hall) made his way back to campus in 2009, taking a job as an administrator
and faculty member at the reinvigorated University of the District of Columbia. He is coordinating UDC's effort to launch a National
Center for Urban Education, serves as co-director of the new Honors Program, and teaches history. More interestingly, he and his
wife, Erica, gave birth to their second daughter, Robin, in December. Email: casch@udc.edu.
BRUCE E. BAKER (PhD/2003/Hall) continued to teach at Royal Holloway, University of London. Last autumn, he and the other
participants in the “After Slavery” project launched the project’s website at http://www.afterslavery.com. It has a large collection of
primary source documents about Reconstruction along with introductory essays and study questions. In March, he helped organize the
“Race, Labor and Citizenship in the Post-Emancipation South” conference in Charleston. At the same time, he took over as co-editor
of American Nineteenth Century History. This has been very interesting and quite a lot of work. Email: bruce.baker@email.rhul.ac.uk
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STEPHEN BERRY (MA/1993/PhD/2000/Barney) stays busy and happy at UGA. Though currently writing Haunted Palace: The
Unbeautiful Mind of Edgar Allan Poe for Houghton Mifflin, he has not quit the Civil War entirely. Last fall he organized the first
annual “UnCivil Wars” conference at the T.R.R. Cobb House in Athens, Georgia. The inaugural theme was “Weirding the War”—an
attempt to do for Civil War history what freakonomics does for its discipline. The resulting essays will be collected as the first volume
of a new Civil War series at UGA Press, which Steve will co-edit with Amy Murrell Taylor. His own essay was entitled, “The
Historian as Death Investigator”—a meditation on his research into the nineteenth century coroner’s office. Check out wsw.uga.edu
for more information. Email: berry@uga.edu.
ROBERT D. BILLINGER, JR. (PhD/1973/Cecil), a native of Bethlehem, PA, is the Ruth Davis Horton Professor of History at
Wingate University, where he has taught since 1979. He is also the chair of the Wingate University History Department. In 2008 he
was chair of the European History Section of the SHA. In 2010 he is serving on the Local Arrangements Committee of the SHA for
the Charlotte, NC, meeting. Bob is a graduate of Lehigh University and completed graduate degrees at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill. He also was a Fulbright Graduate Scholar to Vienna, Austria. He is the author of three books: Metternich and
the German Question: States’ Rights and Federal Duties, 1820-1834; Hitler’s Soldiers in the Sunshine State: German POWs in
Florida; and Nazi POWs in the Tar Heel State.
EMILY BINGHAM (MA/1991/PhD/1998/Mathews) has continued with her biographical project on Henrietta Bingham, her great
aunt, which is now under contract. In March, she presented “Smith in Bloom: Mina Kirstein Curtiss and Henrietta Bingham;
Connecting Smith, Sexuality, Class, and Bloomsbury.” This was in conjunction with the opening of the exhibit, “A Room of Their
Own: Bloomsbury Artists in American Collections,” which opened in April. In the fall of 2009, she served as chair of the local
arrangements committee for the Southern Historical Association’s meeting in Louisville, Kentucky and was a member of the Southern
Association for Women’s Historians committee for the Anne Firor Scott Fellowship. Email: emily@emilybingham.net.
GLENN BLACKBURN (MA/1968/PhD/1974/Kraehe) recently published Maynard Adams: Southern Philosopher of Civilization
(Mercer University Press, 2009). The book is a full intellectual biography of Adams, a professor of philosophy at UNC-CH from 1950
to 1990. In five major books and over a hundred articles, Adams developed a comprehensive philosophy which demonstrates that
there are value and meaning dimensions of reality as well as the physical dimension. Blackburn is currently working on a history of
the North Carolina Coastal Federation, a large environmental organization that works to protect the North Carolina coast. In 2009, he
also helped facilitate establishment of a collection of the Coastal Federation's papers at the UNC-Wilmington library.
Email: jglenn22@verizon.net.
JOYCE M. BOWDEN (MA/1968/Bierck) is writing a history of her grandfather’s family in South Carolina, 1785-1920. During
research, she discovered she is distantly related to Louis Round Wilson through her great grandmother, Caroline Lucinda McCants.
No wonder she enjoyed spending so much time in Wilson Library, 1966-1968. Email: jm.bowden@comcast.net.
MICHELE ANDREA BOWEN (MA/1994/McNeil) had her fifth novel, More Church Folk, released in stores on July 28, 2010
(Grand Central Publishing a Division of Hachette Books USA, NY, NY). More Church Folk is the sequel to her bestseller, Church
Folk. She still lives in Durham, still sings solos in the Inspirational Singers Contemporary Gospel Choir at St. Joseph's AME Church
in Durham, and she is still busy writing novels. Right now, she is working on novel number six, to be set in Chapel Hill.
MARK L. BRADLEY (MA/2002/PhD/2006/Barney) is a historian at the U.S. Army Center of Military History in Washington, DC.
His third book, Bluecoats and Tar Heels: Soldiers and Civilians in Reconstruction North Carolina, was published by the University
Press of Kentucky in spring 2009. It received the North Caroliniana Society Award for Best Book on North Carolina in 2009. He
presented a paper at the Conference of Army Historians and published reviews in the North Carolina Historical Review.
Email: markbrad1@peoplepc.com.
BLAINE A. BROWNELL (MA/1967/Tindall/PhD/1969/Mowry) is retired in Charlottesville, Virginia and continues his work as a
consultant on academic planning and special projects at Zayed University, one of three national universities in the United Arab
Emirates, with main campuses in Dubai and Abu Dhabi. He serves as Chair of the International Student Exchange Programs (ISEP),
an organization of 300 member universities around the world, with headquarters in Washington, D.C. He is incoming Chair of the
Charlottesville Committee on Foreign Relations. He has been selected to write the recent history of his alma mater, Washington and
Lee University, from 1930 to 2001--a project to be completed in 2014. His entry on “The Commercial Civic Elite” appeared in Wanda
Rushing, ed., Urbanization, Vol. 15, The Encyclopedia of Southern Culture (UNC Press, 2010), pp. 34-38. He continues to serve as a
member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Urban History. Email: babrownell@earthlink.net.
D’ANN M. CAMPBELL (PhD/1979/Mowry) is moving from Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at Montana State
University Billings to Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the College at Culver Stockton (Canton, MO) and Professor
of History. She will be living in the old President’s house on campus, a 1895 Victorian house, and will be in charge when the
President is out of town. She has published three historiographical essays on various aspects of women in the military (US, NATO,
20th century, etc). She and her historian husband will keep their Billings house for retirement. She can be reached at
dann@danncampbell.net or Billings 991 Blonco Circle, Billings, MT 59105 or Canton, 800 College Street, Canton, MO 63435.
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CHARLES CARRERAS (MA/1967/PhD/1971/Bierck) retired from teaching Latin America history at Ramapo College last year
after 38 years. In his new life he teaches one course a year, lectures at local libraries on Latin America and is a volunteer at the
Mahwah History Society Museum. He is the head archivist and is currently researching and preparing an exhibit on Les Paul a fifty-five
year resident of Mahwah who died last year. He also helps with a service learn program for Ramapo College students with
Guatemalans in Morristown NJ and in Cajola, Guatemala. Email: ccarrera@ramapo.edu.
STEVEN A. CHANNING (PhD/1968/Williamson) continues mining rich stories of American history, many through the lens of the
North Carolina experience. Over the past year his earlier film February One: The Story of the Greensboro Four was re-broadcast
nationally by PBS on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Woolworth sit-ins. His Documentary film Change Comes Knocking,
on the pioneer antipoverty initiative “The North Carolina Fund” was both broadcast on UNC-TV and included as a DVD with Prof.
James Leloudis and Robert Korstad’s new UNC Press book To Right These Wrongs. And his film on the adventures of Jewish Tar
Heels, Down Home, was also broadcast on UNC-TV. Email: schanning@videodialog.com.
EVELYN M. CHERPAK (PhD/1973/Bierck) is head of the Naval Historical Collection at the Naval War College, Newport, RI. The
Naval War College Press published Three Splendid Little Wars: The Diary of Joseph K. Taussig, 1898-1901 that she edited in
September 2009. A talk and a book signing were held in November. She compiled and published a manuscript register to the papers of
Captain John Kane, USN (Ret.). She presented a paper on naval ephemera in the Naval Historical Collection at the Ephemera Society
Conference and gave a talk on Joseph K. Taussig at the Newport AARP meeting, both in March. She serves on the Publications and
Collections Committees of the Newport Historical Society. Email: Evelyn.Cherpak@USNWC.edu.
MARK CLODFELTER (PhD/1987/Leutze) taught courses on military strategy, applications in national security strategy, the
Vietnam War, and air power at the National War College, plus he led a faculty search committee and put the finishing touches on a
forthcoming book. In September he published “Back from the Future: The Impact of Change on Air Power in the Decades Ahead,” in
the Fall 2009 issue of Strategic Studies Quarterly. In September he also led the National War College’s staff ride to the Gettysburg
battlefield. In January 2010 he lectured on “The Air Wars in Vietnam” to the assembled student body and faculty of the Air Command
and Staff College in Montgomery, Alabama. During Spring 2010 he helped prepare a group of National War College students for a
regional field studies trip to Poland and Hungary. He also reviewed the copy edits for his new book, Beneficial Bombing: The
Progressive Foundations of American Air Power, 1917-1945, which will be published by University of Nebraska Press at the end of
this year. He can be reached via email at clodfelterm@ndu.edu and avidly supports Roy Williams and the basketball Tar Heels.
JOHN M. COX (PhD/2005/Jarausch) is in his fourth year as assistant professor of European history at Florida Gulf Coast University
in Fort Myers, FL. Cox’s first book was published in July 2009 (Circles of Resistance: Jewish, Leftist, and Youth Dissidence in Nazi
Germany, Peter Lang Publishing), and he is currently working on his second monograph To Kill a People: Genocide in the Twentieth
Century (Pearson Prentice Hall, 2011). During this last year, he also published a chapter in an edited volume (“From Rev. Wright to
‘Joe the Plumber’: Racial and Class Anxieties in the 2008 Elections,” for Race 2008: Critical Reflections on an Historic Election,
Myra Mendible, ed., 2010, pp. 77-97), as well as a book review for H-German. Cox presented a paper at the annual conference of the
American Historical Association in January 2010, and also spoke on book panels at the annual conferences of the Association for the
Studies of Nationalities and the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies during the spring semester. Cox directs his university’s Center
for Judaic, Holocaust, and Human Rights Studies. Email: jmcox@fgcu.edu.
JON G. CRAWFORD (PhD/1975/Baxter) is retiring from Roanoke College as Director of International Education, effective June 30
2010. He will reside in Mt Pleasant SC, quite near Charleston, and welcomes old friends. He published a review of Age of Atrocity
(ed. David Edwards et. al.) in Sixteenth Century Journal last year and conducted site visits at U Montpellier, U Nice and U Aix en
Provence in June.
ANASTASIA B. CROSSWHITE (MA/1997/Harris) is Associate Dean for Planning and Advisor to the Dean at the Leonard N. Stern
School of Business at New York University. She received an Executive MBA at Stern in 2009. Email: acrosswh@stern.nyu.edu.
CRAIG J. CURREY (MA/1991/Walker) continues as a colonel and the Director of the Directorate of Basic Combat Training at Fort
Jackson, South Carolina. The organization continues to run Victory University for the Army's Training and Doctrine Command, the
Experimentation and Analysis Element, the Army Physical Fitness School, and various proponents for Army programs. The last year
has been spent working in support of the Deputy Commanding General for Initial Military Training at Fort Monroe, Virginia. Our
focus remains to train the best possible Soldiers for the Army's field units.
CHRIS DALY (MA/1982/Fink) is teaching journalism and journalism history at Boston University. He has a book in the late stages
of publication titled Covering America, a narrative history of journalism in America, from 1704 through about 2008. It is due out early
in 2011 from UMass Press. This fall, he will co-teach a course with BU History Dept Chair Bruce Schulman on “Drafts of History,”
comparing how journalists and historians have treated selected events. He also blogs at http://journalismprofessor.com.
Email: cdaly@bu.edu.
MELVIN G. DEAILE (PhD/2007/Kohn) is currently the Strategy Division Chief at 608th Air and Space Operations Center at
Barksdale AFB, Louisiana. He returned last year after serving six months at the MNF-I Headquarters in Baghdad, Iraq, and will move
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this summer to a new job having been promoted to colonel. His submission “Sputnik, Missiles, and Nuclear War” will be published in
the upcoming book Battleground: War and Peace. Additionally, he is an adjunct professor with American Military University where
he teaches The American Revolution in Context, History of Technology and Culture, and History of the Gulf War.
Email: melvin.deaile@us.af.mil or mel651227@gmail.com.
W. CALVIN DICKINSON (PhD/1967/Baxter) retired from teaching at Tennessee Technological University in 2000. He is still busy
with history, serving on the Tennessee Historical Commission, Cookeville History Museum Board, and Cookeville Historic Zoning
Committee. He also works with the Tennessee Civil War Sesquicentennial celebration and remains active on a local speakers circuit
concerning various history topics. He has completed a book which will be published this summer; and he has written two essays about
early female medical doctors in Tennessee, one of which will be published this year. Email: cdickinson@tntech.edu.
ERIC J. ENGSTROM (PhD/1997/Jarausch) continues to work in the department of history at the Humboldt University in Berlin as
part of a research unit on "Cultures of Madness 1870-1930." For the commemoration of the Humboldt University's bicentennial, he
wrote a history of brain research and the neurosciences at the university that will be published in 2010 in Rüdiger vom Bruch's and
Elmar Tenorth's 1810 bis 2010: 200 Jahre Universität Unter den Linden. Geschichte der Universität zu Berlin. He also published a
survey of current historiography on forensic psychiatry for the journal Current Opinion in Psychiatry. He is also co-editor of a new
internet blog site on the history of psychiatry (http://historypsychiatry.wordpress.com). Email: engstroe@geschichte.hu-berlin.de.
WILLIAM MCKEE EVANS (MA/1950/Godfrey/PhD/1965/Tindall), Professor Emeritus, California State Polytechnic University,
Pomona. The University of Illinois Press published his book, Open Wound: The Long View of Race in America. He contributed an
article, “Will We Always be Preoccupied with Racism?,” to History News Network (HNN) and a paper, “Why Were Industrial Jobs in
the Antebellum North for Whites Only?” (presented by Prof. Todd Menzing) to the Working-Class Studies Association meeting in
Pittsburgh. In a trip to the Carolinas, he presented a paper “Why the Half-Century Delay between Emancipation and the Great
Migration,” at the Charleston, SC, Conference on Race, Labor and Citizenship in the Post-Emancipation South. Then at Carolina
Coastal University, Conway, he spoke to a student-faculty audience on an interpretive theme from Open Wound, “The Changing
Meaning of Color.” Here in North Carolina, he gave interviews to radio stations WCBQ (Oxford) and WPEK (Asheville) about his
new book as well as to the newspapers The Robesonian (Lumberton), The Independent (Durham), and The Seahawk (Wilmington). He
gave a reading and talk on “The Paradox of Harriet Beecher Stowe” at the Center for the Study of the American South, Chapel Hill.
Also, he spoke on the Open Wound’s principal theme: “Crises and Change in Racial Ideas and Behavior,” to a community-university
audience at UNC Pembroke and to “Alternative Spring Break” students at the Center for Community Action in Lumberton, and to
students and faculty at North Carolina Central, Durham, at St. Augustine College, Raleigh, at UNC Asheville, and at Mars Hill
College, Mars Hill. He spoke on “White Backlash and Today’s Impending Crisis” to a community-university audience at UNC
Wilmington and to a student-faculty audience at Wake Forest University. Email: wmckevans@netscape.net.
CHRISTOPHER FISCHER (MA/1998/PhD/2003/Jarausch) teaches modern European history at Indiana State University. Berghahn
Press published his book, Alsace to the Alsatians? Visions and Divisions of Alsatian Regionalism, 1871-1939 in February, 2010. He
also presented papers at the German Studies Association and the American Historical Association. He has published reviews in the
German Studies Review, The Canadian Journal of History, and with H-France. He remains an editor at H-German.
Email: Christopher.Fischer@indstate.edu.
NICHOLAS GANSON (PhD/Raleigh/2006) is Visiting Assistant Professor of History at the College of the Holy Cross (Worcester,
MA), teaching courses in Russian, European, and global history. In May 2009, his book, entitled The Soviet Famine of 1946-47 in
Global and Historical Perspective was published by Palgrave Macmillan. He has a chapter on “Food Supply, Rationing, and Living
Standards” in the forthcoming The Soviet Union in World War II with Pen & Sword (Barnsley, UK). His conference activity has
included participation in a roundtable entitled “Emigration from Russia and its Cultural Baggage” at the annual AAASS Convention in
Boston, MA (November 2009). Email: nganson@holycross.edu.
JERRY GERSHENHORN (PhD/2000/Leloudis) published “A Courageous Voice for Black Freedom: Louis Austin and the Carolina
Times in Depression-Era North Carolina” in the North Carolina Historical Review 87 (January 2010). He appeared as an on-screen
contributor and served as a consultant to Herskovits: At The Heart Of Blackness: A Sixty Minute Documentary (Vital Pictures, 2009),
which was broadcast on PBS in February 2010. He also was an invited discussant at a screening of the film at the Margaret Mead Film
Festival at the American Museum of Natural History in New York in November. He read a paper at the annual conference of the
Association for the Study of African American Life and History in October. His article, "Earlie Thorpe and the Struggle for Black
History, 1948-1989," will be published this year in Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society.
Email: jgershen@nccu.edu.
GLENDA E. GILMORE (PhD/1992/Painter) will be on leave from the History Department at Yale University on a National
Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship in 2010-2011. She will be in France and Ireland working on The Homeland of His
Imagination: Romare Bearden’s Southern Odyssey in Time and Space. She is also completing a history of the United States in the
twentieth century with Tom Sugrue of the University of Pennsylvania for W. W. Norton and Company. In 2009, she was elected a
Fellow of the Society of American Historians and served as Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of African American
Studies. She chaired the Merle Curti Prize Committee for the Organization of American Historians. She serves on the Executive
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Council of the Southern Historical Association and is a series editor for the Penguin History of American Life series and in the
Making of Modern America series at the University of Pennsylvania Press. This year she completed three essays, “’Am I a Screwball,
or Am I a Pioneer?’: Pauli Murray’s Civil Rights Movement,” in Walter Isaacson, ed., A Collection of Original Essays on Leadership
in American History (W. W. Norton, forthcoming 2010), “Somewhere: In the Nadir of African American History, 1890-1920.”
(February, 2010) at http://www.nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve, and “Which Southerners, Whose South? Teaching Southern
History at Yale,” forthcoming in the Yale Review (January 2011). During the year, she was a plenary speaker at the Southern
Association for Women Historians conference in Columbia, South Carolina, and gave invited lectures at the University of New
Hampshire, the University of Florida, Princeton University, and Temple University. Since she has been at Yale, she has directed 20
dissertations and is currently directing 13. Email: glenda.gilmore@yale.edu.
BRENT D. GLASS (PhD/1980/Kasson) is the director (since 2002) of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in
Washington, D.C. The Museum closed in 2006 for a major renovation and reopened in November, 2008. More than 6.5 million
people have visited in the past 18 months. New exhibitions have opened on Abraham Lincoln, maritime history, and the Star-Spangled
Banner. He has written op-ed articles for the Washington Post and Philadelphia Inquirer and the preface for books about Edwin Drake
and New England meetinghouses. In 2009, he delivered the keynote address at a conference in Prague, The Czech Republic; he
conducted a seminar for museum professionals in Belgrade, Serbia; and he served on the cultural exchange working group for the US-Russian
Bilateral Commission in Moscow, Russia. Email: glassb@si.edu.
STEVEN K. GREEN (MA/1987/Mathews/PhD/1997/Semonche) is a professor of law and adjunct professor of history at Willamette
University, where he teaches Constitutional Law, First Amendment, Church and State, and Legal History. He also directs an
interdisciplinary academic program at Willamette, the Center for Religion, Law and Democracy: www.willamette.edu/centers/crld. In
March 2010, his book, The Second Disestablishment: Church and State in Nineteenth-Century America, was published by Oxford
University Press. Email: sgreen@willamette.edu.
TOM HANCHETT (PhD/1993/Lotchin) remains busy in his tenth year as staff historian at Levine Museum of the New South in
Charlotte. Essays on “Charlotte,” “Urban Planning” and “Shout Bands” appeared in the Urbanization and Folklife volumes of the New
Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. His book Legacy: The Myers Park Story came out in a revised and updated edition. The Levine
Museum exhibit Changing Places about cultures colliding in today’s South, with Pamela Grundy (PhD/Kasson/1994) as lead curator
and Tom as assistant, won one of four national exhibition prizes awarded by the American Association of Museums. Tom’s previous
national prize winning exhibition, Courage: The Vision to End Segregation, the Guts to Fight for It, traveled to the Schomburg Center
for Research in Black Culture in New York City and the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles. Tom also curated a new exhibit for the
Museum of Tolerance: Para Todos Los Ninos: Fighting Segregation in California. A BBC crew filmed Tom on location in Atlanta’s
Inman Park discussing 1880s landscape planner Joseph Forsyth Johnson, whose descendant Bruce Forsyth is the subject of a
forthcoming edition of the history/genealogy TV series “Who Do You Think You Are?” Tom writes a monthly column on food
history, “Food from Home,” for the Charlotte Observer, and for the Latino newspaper Mi Gente a monthly column “Bienvenidos el
Nuevo Sur.” Daughter Lydia, who came to Tom’s dissertation defense as a newborn babe in arms, enters UNC Chapel Hill this fall.
Email: tom@historysouth.org.
JOHN HALL (PhD/2007/Higginbotham) became the inaugural holder of the Ambrose-Hesseltine Chair in U.S. Military History at
the University of Wisconsin in July 2009. Last fall, Harvard University Press published his first book, Uncommon Defense: Indian
Allies in the Black Hawk War. He is presently working on a military history of Indian Removal (among other projects) and just
completed an NEH summer institute with the D’Arcy McNickle for American Indian and Indigenous Studies at the Newberry Library
in Chicago.
J. LAURENCE HARE (PhD/2007/Jarausch) has been Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Emory & Henry College since 2007.
This year, he was also Director of Foundations I, an interdisciplinary humanities program for first-year students. In that role, he served
as general editor of the program textbook, Human Foundations: Knowledge, Ethics, and Community, which was published in January
2010. In October 2009, Laurence was invited by the UNC Center for European Studies to participate in a round table on experiential
learning at the annual conference of the Cultures and Languages across the Curriculum (CLAC) Consortium in Cleveland, OH. In the
summer of 2010, he will begin a new tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of History at the University of Arkansas.
JOHN HEPP (MA/1993/Hunt/PhD/1998/Filene) teaches American history and urban history (and the occasional World since 1945)
at Wilkes University. He continues on the Council of the Pennsylvania Historical Association and the editorial board of the
Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. Last year he was named editor of PHA’s Pennsylvania History Studies Series. One
of the highlights of his year was teaching a class that had a week-long London component (for the fifth time). He gave one
presentation at the National Council on Public History and was a commentator on panels at three other conferences. He also had book
reviews published in two journals. Email: john.hepp@wilkes.edu.
KIMBERLY D. HILL (MA/2004/PhD/2008/Brundage) teaches United States history at Del Mar College. She was nominated for the
Del Mar Teacher of the Year award in Spring 2010. And she was chosen to participate in the "Race and American Religion" summer
seminar at Calvin College. Her interview with Mr. Lemuel Delany, Jr. was published in the Spring 2009 issue of Southern Cultures.
Email: khill12@delmar.edu.
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GEORGE W. HOPKINS (PhD/1976/Mowry) retired in June 2009 after 32 years at the College of Charleston. Arriving in August
1976 on a one-year contract as a Visiting Assistant Professor, he later became Chair of the Department of History, Director of Urban
Studies, Coordinator of American Studies, Faculty Senator, and Faculty Senate President Pro Tem. He currently holds the rank of
Professor Emeritus of History and teaches one course a semester in support of the Urban Studies Program. He has presented numerous
conference papers, including an invited presentation at Oxford University in 2006 on "Diversity in US Public Higher Education." He
has published articles on US urban and labor history, twentieth century US social movements, the Vietnam War, and American
popular culture. His most recent article, "Union Reform and Labor Law: Miners For Democracy and the Use of the Landrum-Griffin
Act," is forthcoming in the Journal of Labor Research. He has reviews forthcoming in the Journal of Ethnic History and LABOR:
Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas. He is currently completing revisions of his book on Miners For Democracy:
Insurgency and Reform in the United Mine Workers of America, 1970-1981. A former state board chair of the Carolina Alliance for
Fair Employment [CAFÉ], he remains active in that organization as well as the South Carolina Progressive Network.
Email: hopkinsg@cofc.edu.
PATRICK HUBER (PhD/2000/Hall) is an associate professor of history at Missouri University of Science and Technology (formerly
the University of Missouri-Rolla). His book Linthead Stomp: The Creation of Country Music in the Piedmont South, published by the
University of North Carolina Press, won the 2009 Belmont Book Award for the Best Book on Country Music from Belmont University
and the 2009 Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound (Best Research in Recorded Country Music) from the Association for
Recorded Sound Collections. Email: huberp@mst.edu.
NAT C. HUGHES (MA/1956/PhD/1959/Green) published his book, Yale’s Confederates: A Biographical Dictionary, in winter 2009
(University of Tennessee Press). He is co-editing Jacob J. Oswandel’s Notes on the Mexican War, 1846-184 (Tennessee) and
contributing a chapter in Bergeron and Hewitt, Confederate Generals in the Western Theater (Tennessee).
Email: whardeej@hotmail.com.
CAROL SUE HUMPHREY (PhD/1985/Higginbotham) continues to teach American history at Oklahoma Baptist University. During
the 2009-2010 academic year, she was on a half-time sabbatical in order to work on two book projects related to the role of the press
during the American Revolution. She continues to serve as the Secretary of the American Journalism Historians Association and
attended the annual meeting of AJHA in Birmingham in October. She also continues to serve as the Faculty Athletics Representative
for OBU. She has been grading US History Advanced Placement Exams for 18 years. In June 2009 she served as an Exam Leader at
the grading session in Louisville, Kentucky, a position which entails finding samples and developing standards and rationales for the
grading process. Email: carol.humphrey@okbu.edu.
JOHN C. INSCOE (MA/1980/PhD/1984/Barney) has a book entitled Writing the South through the Self that will appear from UGA
Press in January. It is a collection of essays on southern autobiography, many of which are drawn from a course he’s taught at the
University of Georgia for the past twenty years or so. He was named the Albert B. Saye Professor of History and received the Lothar
Tresp Award as the outstanding teacher in the university’s honors program. He continues to edit the New Georgia Encyclopedia and
serves as secretary-treasurer of the Southern Historical Association. E-mail: jinscoe@uga.edu.
ERNEST H. JERNIGAN (MA/1951/Godfrey) and another 102 WWII Vets were flown on October 29, 2009 to the Baltimore-
Washington International Airport on a one-day mission to visit the WWII Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery with its Tomb of
the Unknowns, etc. The trip was sponsored by Honor Flight Ocala of the Honor Flight Network. Jernigan served in Germany with the
Third Army under General George Patton.
TRACY E. K’MEYER (PhD/1993/Filene) is chair of the Department of History at the University of Louisville, where she is also Co-
Director of the Oral History Center. In 2009 she published two books, a monograph Civil Rights in the Gateway to the South:
Louisville, Kentucky 1945-1980 (University Press of Kentucky) and an oral history collection Freedom on the Border: An Oral
History of the Civil Rights Movement in Kentucky (University Press of Kentucky, 2009), which was co-authored by Dr. Catherine
Fosl. In early 2010 K’Meyer also published “I Saw it Coming”: Worker Narratives of Plant Closings and Job Loss (Palgrave), which
was co-authored by Dr. Joy Hart.
ROBERT KORSTAD (PhD/1987/Fink) is Kevin D. Gorter Professor of Public Policy and History at Duke University. This spring,
the University of North Carolina Press published To Right These Wrongs: The North Carolina Fund and the Battle to End Poverty and
Inequality in 1960s America, coauthored with James Leloudis. Korstad and Leloudis are leading a new project called the Moral
Challenges of Poverty and Inequality in North Carolina. For more information on the book and the project see
www.torightthesewrongs.com.
SHARON A. KOWALSKY (MA/1998/PhD/2004/Raleigh) published Deviant Women: Female Crime and Criminology in
Revolutionary Russia, 1880-1930 (DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 2009). She received an International Faculty
Development Grant from Texas A&M University-Commerce and a Short Term Travel Grant from the International Research and
Exchanges Board (IREX) to conduct research in Moscow, Russia, in Summer 2010 for a new project on child support, alimony, and
domestic violence in revolutionary Russia. She published a book review in The Journal of Interdisciplinary History and served as
Program Committee Chair for the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies. She was awarded a Texas A&M University System
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Teaching Excellence Award. Email: Sharon_Kowalsky@tamu-commerce.edu.
TIM LEHMAN (M.A/1983/Ph.D/1988/Graham) wrote Bloodshed at Little Bighorn: Sitting Bull, Custer, and the Destinies of Nations
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010). He continues to teach at Rocky Mountain College in Billings, Montana, and is happy to
report that the college has hired a recent UNC graduate, Jenifer Parks, to join his department. This gives Rocky Mountain College the
highest percentage of Tar Heel historians in one department anywhere west of the Mississippi.
STUART LEIBIGER (MA/1989/PhD/1995/Higginbotham) is Associate Professor and Chair of the History Department at La Salle
University. He is an Organization of American Historians “Distinguished Lecturer.” He published “James Madison: Jack Rakove’s
Republican Revolutionary,” in Extensions: A Journal of the Carl Albert Congressional Research Studies Center, Winter 2010, 9-13.
(Online version: www.ou.edu/carlalbertcenter.) He also published “Slavery, the Constitution, and the Presidency,” “The American
Presidency,” and “Impeachment and the Constitution” in Presidents and the Constitution, vols. 1 and 2, The Bill of Rights Institute,
2009-2010, 1:68-70, 2:vi-ix, 106-9. He lectured on “James Madison: Republican Revolutionary,” at the David Library of the
American Revolution in Washington’s Crossing, Pennsylvania. Email: leibiger@lasalle.edu.
JAMES W. MARCUM (PhD/1970/Foust) is retired. He has the entry on Information Technology Literacy in the 3rd edition of
Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences (2010), co-authored with Denise O’Shea. His article, “Centers for New Learning:
Defining the Issues,” appeared in College and Undergraduate Libraries, 16:4 (2009): 358-362. Another article, co-authored with
Maria Jankowska, UCLA, is “Sustainability Challenge for Academic Libraries: Planning for the Future,” College and Research
Libraries, 71: 2 (March 2010): 160-170. Email: marcumjw9@aol.com.
SALLY MARKS (MA/1961/Pegg) has published her last book Paul Hymans: Belgium (London: Haus, 2010) in the Makers of the
Modern World Series about delegation heads at the 1919-1923 peace conferences. She has also participated in two Roundtables for H-Diplo.
Email: smarks@ric.edu.
ROY T. MATTHEWS (PhD/1966/Pegg) has revised, with his co-authors Dr. DeWitt Platt and Dr. Thomas Noble, the seventh
edition of their textbook, The Western Humanities (McGraw-Hill, 2011). The textbook is used in many colleges and universities and
continues to be one of McGraw-Hill’s best selling textbooks in their Higher Education Division. Roy has completed his novel about
the impact of World War II on his hometown which he hopes to have published within the year. He and LeeAnn are volunteers at the
National Gallery of Art, and they still enjoy life in Washington and visiting friends and family. Email: Matthew9@msu.edu.
ALAN MCPHERSON (PhD/2001/Hunt) is Associate Professor of International and Area Studies and ConocoPhillips Petroleum
Chair in Latin American Studies at the University of Oklahoma. He did little publishing this year but was the Central American
Visiting Scholar at Harvard University’s David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, where he wrote his next book, about
resistance to U.S. occupations in Latin America. He did publish a long entry on “Foreign Policy and Domestic Politics 1865-1933” in
The Princeton Encyclopedia of United States Political History, wrote online op-eds, and provided commentary on radio and
television. He wrote reviews in Reviews in American History, the Journal of American Studies, the Journal of American History, the
Hispanic American Historical Review, H-Diplo, history.transnational, and U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings. He gave talks at Harvard
and Arizona State University and lectured three times at the Foreign Service Institute in Virginia. Email: mcpherson@ou.edu.
PAULA MICHAELS (MA/1991/PhD/1997/Raleigh) continues as Associate Professor of History at the University of Iowa. This year
she expanded her teaching portfolio to include a new course on medicine and health in world history, a class she looks forward to
repeating in the fall of 2012, when she returns from her upcoming research leave. Michaels received grants from the Guggenheim
Foundation, the NEH, and the NIH for the 2010-11 and 2011-12 academic years to complete her book on the transnational history of
the Lamaze method (under contract with Oxford University Press). She spoke on this research during 2009-10 at the annual meeting
of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies in Boston, at a conference on Pain and Knowledge at Hebrew
University in Jerusalem, at Grand Rounds in UNC’s Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and at the University of Iowa’s
Women’s History month celebration. Her article on French women’s birth narratives recently appeared in the Journal of Perinatal
Education. Keep an eye out for her article on the Lamaze method and Cold War politics, slated to appear in the American Historical
Review in late 2010 or early 2011.
CARY MILLER (PhD/2004/Perdue) is teaching American Indian history courses at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. This
year her department voted to award her tenure and the University of Nebraska Press will publish her book Ogimaag: Ojibwe
leadership 1763-1845 in the fall of 2011. She also published a review in the Western Historical Quarterly. Email: carym@uwm.edu.
DANIEL R. MILLER (MA/1976/PhD/1987/Mathews) is teaching Latin American history and history methods at Calvin College in
Grand Rapids, Michigan. He recently translated Bearing the Marks of Jesus: A History of the Christian Reformed Church in Cuba, by
Eduardo Pedraza (Grand Rapids, MI: Calvin College and the Calvin Center for Christian Scholarship, 2009). He presented papers at the
International Conference on “Misión y Poder” in San José, Costa Rica, in June, 2009, and the Foro Internacional sobre “Patrimonio
Urbano y Cultural” in Monterrey, Mexico, in April, 2010. He published reviews in Journal of Latin American Studies and Fides et
Historia. Email: mill@calvin.edu.
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DAVID T. MORGAN (MA/1964/PhD/1968/Lefler) has been retired now for nearly 13 years and continues to enjoy it. He is finally
confident that he has the hang of it. He remains active—playing tennis, writing letters-to-the-editor, and promoting the ten books he
now has for sale, the last three of which he self-published. His latest, entitled A Blue Voice Crying in the Wilderness of a Red State, is
a compilation of his letters letters-to-the-editor (some published and some not) written over a twenty-year period. All of his books and
some other writings are available at www.amazon.com, a website that carries his author page. He also has a professional page online
at www.facebook.com-- David T. Morgan, Author. It lists his ten books that are currently available at Amazon and from his respective
publishers. Email: dtm1937@bellsouth.net or dtm1937@gmail.com.
PHILIP R. MULLER (PhD/1971/Klingberg) retired this year from Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), where
his clients had included the Intelligence Community, Defense Logistics Agency, Internal Revenue Service, Customs Service,
Securities and Exchange Commission, and Environmental Protection Agency. He resides with his wife, Aliceann, in Falls Church,
VA. Last October, he and Aliceann flew to Grand Junction, CO, to visit with Frank W. Klingberg. Email: pmuller@cox.net.
The History Department regrettably omitted the entry for Dr. George E. Munro from the 2009 Newsletter. We sincerely apologize for
the error. Dr. Monro’s 2009 and 2010 entries are listed below.
GEORGE E. MUNRO (PhD/2003/Griffiths) continues as Professor of History at Virginia Commonwealth University. His book The
Most Intentional City: St. Petersburg in the Reign of Catherine the Great was published by Fairleigh Dickinson University Press in
November, 2008. He published “Catherine Discovers St. Petersburg” in Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas. His book reviews
appeared in Slavic Review and Canadian-American Slavic Studies and an article “Elizabeth Petrovna” in Supplement to Modern
Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History. He also presented a paper at the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies. Email:
gemunro@vcu.edu.
GEORGE E. MUNRO (PhD/2003/Griffiths) is a professor of history at Virginia Commonwealth University. In May 2009 he gave a
subscription lecture on Siberia at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington that drew an audience of well over a hundred. In June he
served as study leader on a National Geographic Expeditions trip on the Trans-Siberian Railroad from Vladivostok to Moscow with a
two day side trip to Mongolia. He made the same trip in July for Smithsonian Journeys and again in September for both institutions. In
July he read a paper in Durham, England, at the international conference of the Study Group on Eighteenth-Century Russia. In January
he served on a panel at the AHA. A book review appeared in Slavic Review. In February 2010 he was named a Fulbright alumni
ambassador for a two-year term to represent the Fulbright program on various college and university campuses. A book-length
translation from Russian awaits publication: stay tuned. Email: gemunro@vcu.edu.
BRIAN NANCE (MA/1986/Headley/PhD/1991/McVaugh) is teaching early modern European history at Coastal Carolina University.
He has co-edited with F. Eliza Glaze and contributed to a collection of essays entitled Between Text and Patient: The Medical
Enterprise in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, to be published this summer in SISMEL's Micrologus Series (Firenzi, Edizioni del
Galluzzo). The volume features twenty-one essays stemming from a 2007 conference held in UNC's Wilson Library in honor of
Michael McVaugh's retirement from teaching. Nance's essay is entitled "The Arena and the Study: Medical Practice in Turquet de
Mayerne's Treatment of Robert Cecil." He published book reviews for H-Sci-Med-Tech and Renaissance Quarterly (forthcoming),
chaired a session at the American Association for the History of Medicine's Annual Conference, and completed a three-year term on
the Editorial Board of the Bulletin of the History of Medicine.
P. BRADLEY NUTTING (MA/1968/PhD/1972/Lefler) retired from the History Department at Framingham State College,
Framingham, MA in December 2009 after 34 years of service. He continues to act as an academic advisor and Coordinator of the
Liberal Studies Program. The Journal of Family History is scheduled to publish his article, "Absent Husbands, Single Wives: Success
and Domesticity in the 19th Century Great Lakes World," in October 2010. He is currently completing an article on the career path of
a Victorian bookkeeper-forwarding merchant--railroad station master. Email: pnutting@framingham.edu.
GAIL WILLIAMS O’BRIEN (PhD/1975/Mathews) wrote the “Historical Essay” for A Red Family: Junius, Gladys & Barbara
Scales, edited by Mickey Friedman with an Afterward by Barbara Scales, University of Illinois Press, 2009, and has a forthcoming
article, “Civil Rights Era Violence,” in The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, vol. 22, Violence, edited by Amy Wood, Center
for the Study of Southern Culture, UNC Press. Although retired from teaching, Gail continues to serve on the Board of Editors for the
NC Historical Review and the NC Historical Markers Committee.
EDWARD (TED) PHILLIPS (PhD/1990/Griffiths) was promoted to Director of Exhibitions and Resources at the United States
Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C., in May 2009. In that position, he oversees the museum’s permanent, special, and
traveling exhibitions programs. In January 2010, he presented “Non-Jewish Victims of the Nazi Era: The Persecution of Homosexuals
in the Third Reich” at a national teachers conference in Opatija, Croatia, sponsored by the Republic of Croatia’s Education and
Teacher Training Agency. In March 2010, he spent three weeks in Poland meeting with the leadership of the major Holocaust
memorials and museums. Email: ephillips@ushmm.org.
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VIRGINIA F. RAINEY (PhD/1980/Taylor) is Stated Clerk for the Presbytery of Huntingdon (P.C.U.S.A.). She is a member of the
Board of Directors of the Presbyterian Historical Society.
KRISTOFER RAY (PhD/2003/Watson) has been teaching early American history at Austin Peay State University. In addition, he
has written essays on the “Corrupt Bargain” of 1825 for a forthcoming edited collection on Jacksonian America, and on A Summary
View of the Rights of British North America for a forthcoming edited collection on Thomas Jefferson. Volume five of The Papers of
Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, the last volume on which he worked, was also published last year. In addition, he’s delivered
papers on the State of Franklin at the 31st annual conference of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, on Thomas
Jefferson at the 2009 Virginia Forum, and on new directions in Tennessee historiography for the Tennessee Historical Society. Most
recently, he was appointed senior editor of the Tennessee Historical Quarterly. Feel free to submit anything you think is relevant!
Email: rayk@apsu.edu.
JEFF RICHARDSON (MA/1996/Barney) is Senior Vice President / Director, Corporate Development & Investor Relations at Fifth
Third Bank in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is responsible for mergers and acquisitions and investor communications for the bank and has
been with Fifth Third since 2006. Jeff and Missy live across the river in Newport, Kentucky, in the South.
Email: jeff.richardson@alumni.wfu.edu.
JOHN M. RIDDLE (MA/1961/Caldwell/PhD/1963/MacKinney) has retired from North Carolina State University but continues to
teach part-time. In the last two years he has published two books: Goddesses, Elixirs, and Witches, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, 213
pp.; and A History of the Middle Ages, 300-1500, Rowman & Littlefield, Publishers, 2008, 509 pp. Email: john_riddle@ncsu.edu.
JENNIFER RITTERHOUSE (MA/1994/PhD/1999/Hall, Lebsock) is starting a new job as Associate Professor of History at George
Mason University. She recently published an article, "Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the
South," in the online journal Southern Spaces (www.southernspaces.org) and especially invites readers to check it out for a photo of
UNC's own Bill Leuchtenburg at age 15. She commented on a panel and chaired a prize committee for the Southern Association for
Women Historians in 2009 and is now the chair of the SAWH Mentoring Committee. She would welcome suggestions and feedback
on the online Mentoring Toolkit at http://www.h-net.org/~sawh/Toolkit/. Her most recent book reviews appeared on H-South and in
the Journal of Social History. She participated in a roundtable at the July 2009 meeting of the Society for the History of Children and
Youth and commented on a panel at UNC's New Perspectives on African-American History and Culture Conference in February
2010. Email: jritterh@gmu.edu.
BLAIN ROBERTS (MA/2000/PhD/2005/Hall) is assistant professor of history at California State University, Fresno, where she
teaches courses in modern U.S. and women’s history. Blain spent much of 2009-2010 writing about memory, tourism, and history in
Charleston, South Carolina along with her husband and colleague, Ethan J. Kytle. They co-wrote an editorial for the History News
Network, “How McDonnell’s Remarks Could Jeopardize Southern Tourism” (4/19/10), as well as an essay entitled “‘Is It Okay to
Talk about Slaves?’: Segregating the Past in Historic Charleston,” which will appear in Dixie Passages: Tourism and Southern
History, edited by Karen L. Cox (University Press of Florida, forthcoming). She gave a paper based on this research at the Conference
on Race, Labor, and Citizenship in the Post-Emancipation South in Charleston in March. She was awarded both university- and
college-level research awards to work on her book manuscript, Pretty Women: Female Beauty in the Jim Crow and Civil Rights South.
She also published book reviews in the Journal of Southern History and Louisiana History and served as a master teacher for the
Clovis Unified School District’s Teaching American History Grant.
EDWARD E. ROSLOF (PhD/1994/Raleigh) was appointed Executive Director of the Council for International Exchange of Scholars
(CIES) in April 2010. CIES, a division of the Institute of International Education (IIE), administers the worldwide Fulbright Scholar
Program for the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State. As Deputy Vice-President of IIE, he also
oversees administration of the Humphrey Fellowship Program, which is a Fulbright activity that brings over 200 mid-career
professionals from 126 developing countries to the USA each year for academic study and professional development. During seven
years with IIE, Ed has also served as the Fulbright Director in Russia and Director of the Humphrey Fellowship Program.
Email: eroslof@iie.org.
JOHN HERBERT (JACK) ROPER (MA/1973/PhD/1977/Williamson) teaches at Emory & Henry College (EHC) in Virginia. The
University of South Carolina Press will publish his book The Magnificent Mays: a Biography of Benjamin Elijah Mays, in 2011. He
was a Hope Award recipient for 2010 (EHC was national recipient, Roper was individual recipient). He received an Excellence in
Teaching Award for 2010 (voted by graduating seniors), and served also in various roles at EHC: Director of Graduate Studies,
Sponsor for Blue Key Service Honorary for Men, national secretary for Blue Key International, and sponsor for Cardinal Key Service
Honorary for Women. He was also Venturer Crew Chief for Co-ed BSA Crew 79, member of Program Committee for Sequoyah
Council BSA, member of program committee for Southwestern Virginia Higher Education Center, and member of planning
committee, Historical Society of Washington County (VA) Civil War Commemoration.
MOLLY P. ROZUM (PhD/2001/Lotchin) edited and wrote the introduction to the dual memoir, Small-town Boy, Small-town Girl:
Growing Up in South Dakota, 1920-1950, by Eric B. Fowler and Sheila Delaney, Pierre: South Dakota State Historical Society Press,
2009. The book won a gold medal from the 2010 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the category of Mid-West—Best Regional
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Non-Fiction. She also published two book notices for The Annals of Iowa and served on the Regional Phi Alpha Theta Graduate
Student Prize Committee for the best paper presented at the 2010 Missouri Valley History Conference.
Email: molly.rozum@doane.edu.
DAVID SARTORIUS (MA/1997/PhD/2003/Pérez) published (with María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo) “Revolution,” in Social Text
100, as well as a book review of Matthew D. Childs, The 1812 Aponte Rebellion in Cuba and the Struggle against Atlantic Slavery,
for H-Atlantic. He traveled to Brazil in June 2009 and presented “Travel, Passports, and the Boundaries of Race in Nineteenth-
Century Cuba” at the meeting of the Latin American Studies Association, and he gave an invited lecture at the Universidade Federal
Rural do Rio de Janeiro in Nova Iguaçu titled “Meus Vasalhos: Milicias de Côr e os Fines do Imperio Espanhol.” In July, he traveled
to Mexico to present “Revolution Will Be an Aspirin the Size of the Sun” at the Tepoztlán Institute for the Transnational History of
the Americas. He returned to North Carolina in October to deliver comments at the Latin American Labor History Conference at
Duke. And in April he presented “On Becoming Spanish: Repudiating Citizenship and the Elusive Pure Race in Cuba’s Last Indian
Pueblos” at the “Inventing Race in the Americas” conference at the University of Chicago. He continues to serve on the collectives of
Social Text and the Tepoztlán Institute. Email: das@umd.edu.
WILLIAM K. SCARBOROUGH (PhD/1962/Green) began a two-year phased retirement on June 1. His book manuscript, The
Allistons of Chicora Wood: Wealth, Honor, and Gentility in the South Carolina Lowcountry, has been accepted for publication by
LSU Press and is scheduled for publication in fall, 2011.
PETER J. SCHIFFERLE (MA/1981/Weinberg) continues to direct the Advanced Operational Art Studies Fellowship at the School
of Advanced Military Studies, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. His current teaching focus is the use of design in
whole-of-government and military operations. The University Press of Kansas just published his first book, America's School for War:
Fort Leavenworth, Officer Education, and Victory in World War II. He continues to research the interwar period, and is working on
articles for The Journal of Military History and Military Review, as well as having delivered papers at the Society for Military History
annual meeting and at Missouri State University's Taiwan and China annual conference. He submitted reviews to JMH, Army History
and Military Review, and is working on a review for Global War Studies. He reports it was great to visit with Professor Weinberg at
the SMH meeting at the Virginia Military Institute. Email: pjschifferle@kc.rr.com.
ARTHUR KANE SCOTT (ABD/1967/Foust) teaches Islamic/Native/Latin American Studies at Dominican University of California.
He offers an Islamic Intensive emphasizing the theme of “diversity” every year for public school/humanities teachers. He presented a
paper at International Conference on Sufism on “Ecological Imperatives of Quran” last summer in San Rafael, California, and writes
regularly in Sufism: An Inquiry. Similarly he writes on-line essays on contemporary events about Middle East/ United states in
“Journal of America.Org.” His most recent essay was “Who Rules America?” In January, 2010, with other Dominican colleagues he
traveled to Egypt. In addition, he has taken the lead in organizing experiential educational travel to Ecuador, and to El Salvador as part
of SOA Watch in honor of Archbishop Oscar Romero’s assassination, as well as raising ecological awareness in Marin County within
the Latino Community through “Viviendo Verde Program.” He is currently immersed in a biography on Cochise entitled: “Cochise
and His Times” which he presented as an academic scholar to his Dominican peers in spring 2010. Finally he led faculty and students
into Sacred Geography of Southwest: Chaco, Mesa Verde, and Canyon De Chelly. He currently is a Board Member at the Marin
Museum of American Indian. Email: scott@dominican.edu.
J. ROBERT SHEPPARD, JR. (MA/1971/Cecil) is teaching International Project Finance in the MBA program at the Moore School
of Business of the University of South Carolina. He also began work as an Instructor in Stanford University’s Global Infrastructure
Forum. He continues his consulting for the US Government’s Millennium Challenge Corporation, working on a wastewater treatment
project in Jordan, and for the United Nations, working on an assignment in Tanzania to implement structures to develop and finance
small-scale infrastructure projects. He is also engaged to arrange financing for a series of fly ash treatment facilities for US electric
power plants and continues to be active as a member of the board of directors of New Generation Biofuels, a renewable fuels
manufacturer listed on NASDAQ. Email: projfin@bellsouth.net.
ALICE ALMOND SHROCK (MA/1970/PhD/1974/Mowry) and RANDALL SHROCK (PhD/1979/Higginbotham) serve as co-chairs
of the History Department at Earlham College and continue in the 36th year of their shared appointment teaching U.S. history.
An article focusing on their shared appointment (Inside Higher Education, January 22, 2010) described them as "pioneers in forging a
path for spouses hoping to balance dual passions of scholarship and family." It is believed that theirs is the longest running shared
appointment in the U.S. Alice continues her research on Quaker reformers; her latest essay on Lucretia Mott appeared in the Oxford
International Encyclopedia of Peace. Randall's article on Alexander Spotswood will appear in Encyclopedia Virginia.
Email: randalls@earlham.edu, alices@earlham.edu.
BLAKE SLONECKER (MA/2006/PhD/2009/Filene) is teaching American history at Waldorf College in Forest City, Iowa. Last
October he delivered a lecture entitled “We are Marshall Bloom: Suicide and the Collective Memory of the Sixties” at the University
of Massachusetts, Amherst’s fifth annual Colloquium on Social Change. An expanded version of the paper will be published in the
December 2010 issue of The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics and Culture. He published reviews in the Journal of American
History, The Sixties, and Columbia. In April Waldorf College selected him as its 2010 Professor of the Year, which is awarded
annually to the College’s most outstanding teacher. Email: blake.slonecker@waldorf.edu.
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CHRISTINA SNYDER (PhD/2007/Perdue) is currently an assistant professor of History and American Studies at Indiana University,
Bloomington. Her first book, Slavery in Indian Country: The Changing Face of Captivity in Early America was released in March
2010 by Harvard University Press. She has received several grants, including grants from IU's New Frontiers in the Arts and
Humanities and the College Arts and Humanities Institute, in support of her next book project tentatively entitled The Indian
Gentlemen of Choctaw Academy: Status and Sovereignty in Antebellum America.
CINDY SPEAS (MA/1975/Baxter) is Director of Community Affairs for the Washington Regional Transplant Community (WRTC)
in Annandale, Virginia. WRTC is the federally designated organ, eye and tissue recovery agency for the Washington, DC area. Her
team is responsible for all donation awareness and educational programming, advertising, media relations, Donor Registry
maintenance in three states, as well as providing the bereavement support of all donor families whose loved ones have given the gift of
life. She serves on the Donate Life America Donor Designation Faculty, as President of Donate Life Virginia, team leader of Donate
Life DC, and on the advisory board of Donate Life Maryland. She has worked on the design and development of various donation
websites, including www.BeADonor.org. Email: cindy@wrtc.org.
ROSE STREMLAU (PhD/2005/Perdue) has had a busy and productive year. With a partial course-release provided by an American
fellowship from the American Association for University Women, she completed her book manuscript on Cherokee families during
the allotment era, scheduled to be published by the University of North Carolina Press in fall 2011. She presented three papers,
including at the 2009 meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory and at the Conference for American Indian Women of Proud
Nations. Her essay on Sarah Winnemucca and sexual violence against American Indian women in the West has been included in the
7th edition of Women's America, the popular reader edited by Linda K. Kerber, Jane Sherron De Hart and Cornelia H. Dayton. Lastly,
several years of hard work culminated in the creation of a student and faculty exchange program between the University of North
Carolina at Pembroke, which is a historically American Indian university, and the University College of the North, a First Nations-serving
university in northern Canada, and Rose looks forward to leading a student trip next year. Email: stremlau@alumni.unc.edu.
JERRY B. THOMAS (MA/1967/PhD/1971/Douglass) retired from teaching at Shepherd University in Shepherdstown, West
Virginia in May, 2009. His An Appalachian New Deal: West Virginia in the Great Depression, originally published by University
Press of Kentucky in 1998, was published in a paperback edition by West Virginia University Press in April, 2010. He has also written
An Appalachian Reawakening: West Virginia and the Perils of the New Machine Age, 1945-1972, forthcoming from West Virginia
University Press in fall 2010. He and wife Vicky continue to reside in Shepherdstown. Email: vthomas2@frontiernet.net.
KAREN KRUSE THOMAS (MA/1995/PhD/1999/Leloudis) is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of the History of Medicine at the
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, where she is writing a history of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. She presented two
conference papers in 2010, "Medical Education as an Anomaly of Desegregation: Public Policy Efforts to Recruit Black Physicians" at
OAH in April and "Public Health Rising: Thomas Parran, Lowell Reed, and the Triumph of the M.P.H., 1935-1955" at the American
Association of the History of Medicine in May.
CAROLE WATTERSON TROXLER (MA/1966/PhD1974/Baxter) enjoys being a footloose historian as Professor Emeritus of
History, Elon University. In the past year, she presented the following papers: “Uses of the Bahama Islands by Southern Loyalist
Exiles,” Conference on Loyalism and the Revolutionary Atlantic World, University of Maine, Orono, June 4-7, 2009; “Beyond the
Reach of His Majesty? Two Granville County, North Carolina, Challengers of Local Corruption c. 1765,” Consortium on the
Revolutionary Era, Charleston, S.C., February 26-27, 2010; “Labor Supply and Reconstruction Violence in a North Carolina Piedmont
County,” Conference on Race, Labor and Citizenship in the Post-Emancipation South, Charleston, S.C., March 11

THE NEWSLETTER
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
Number 59 Chapel Hill, North Carolina Autumn 2010
GREETINGS FROM THE CHAIR
During the past year the Department of History, like the rest of the university, experienced the cumulative effects of the so-called
“Great Recession.” Because of the speed, extent, and severity of the recession, administrators initially could only react to conditions.
During the past year we could begin to assess the long term implications of the new economic reality in which universities operate.
The old mantra of “doing more with less” will not suffice in this new environment. Instead, this department has had to ponder its
missions and how it uses virtually all of the resources at its disposal. During this coming year the History faculty should complete the
process of aligning the department’s mission with its resources. To date we have carefully and prudently reduced both the size of the
incoming graduate class and the number of “fixed term” (adjunct) faculty. Despite these responses, made necessary by a substantial
and permanent budget cut, the department has managed to make approximately the same number of seats available in History classes.
That the department weathered the past year is a testament to the hard work of many members, but especially Associate Chair
Miles Fletcher and the Director of Graduate Studies Melissa Bullard. Miles tweaked (and tweaked and tweaked) our course offerings
to minimize any disruptions and to maximize seats; Melissa oversaw a particularly challenging graduate admissions season during
which we had to distribute fewer fellowships to the largest pool of applicants in recent memory (and perhaps ever). The department
owes a large debt to both Miles and Melissa. Miles, at least, can enjoy a respite from long years of service to the department while
Kathleen DuVal, the new Director of Undergraduate Studies, and Jay Smith, the new Associate Chair, assume his former duties.
They will be joined by Lloyd Kramer, who will return to the helm after a much deserved year on fellowships.
A further word about the record of service by History faculty is in order. In addition to serving on editorial boards and program
committees each year, members of this department perform important duties not only on this campus but also in national and
international settings. For example, Peter Coclanis (Economic history) is now the Director of the newly established Global Research
Institute. Jim Leloudis (US and North Carolina) continues to serve as Associate Dean for Honors and Director of the James M.
Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence. Wayne Lee (Military) is the Director of the Program in Peace, War, and Defense.
Beyond the confines of Chapel Hill, Richard Kohn (Military) is serving on a major Department of Defense quadrennial defense
review. Richard Talbert (Ancient) chairs the Advisory Council to the School of Classical Studies at the American Academy in
Rome. Harry Watson (Antebellum US) is simultaneously the President of the Historical Society of North Carolina and the president-elect
of the Society for Historians of the Early Republic.
The department continued its out-reach during the past year. It sponsored both the Project for Historical Education (regular
seminars for high school history teachers) and the annual public lecture on African American History. This year’s speaker was
William P. Jones, Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a graduate of UNC’s History Department. The
author of The Tribe of Black Ulysses: African American Lumber Workers in the Jim Crow South, Prof. Jones spoke on the “Unknown
Origins of the March on Washington: Civil Rights Politics and the Black Working Class.” Other well-attended events hosted by the
department included a major workshop on "Gender and Empire - Comparative Perspectives," organized by Chad Bryant and Karen
Hagemann.
CAROLINA ALUMNI RECEPTION
Please join us for an Alumni Reception at the annual meeting of the Southern Historical Association in Charlotte, NC. This year we
are co-sponsoring the event with the Duke History Department on Friday, November 5, 2010, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at The
Westin Charlotte. We look forward to seeing you there. We will also co-sponsor a UNC-CH and Duke Reception at the AHA meeting
in Boston, MA. More information on the AHA event will be available later in the fall.
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GREETINGS FROM THE CHAIR, CONT.
Especially gratifying evidence of the robust health of our program was gathered by the National Research Council in its study of
graduate programs. This department’s graduate program ranks very favorably with its peers in most important measures. Even a
cursory glance at the activities of our graduate students during the past year will confirm the NRC’s data. Our students delivered
papers at conferences abroad and across the country, published articles (including several award winning articles), and organized and
hosted what has developed into one of the best regional conferences on African American history. More information on the
accomplishments of our graduate students can be found below in this Newsletter.
Despite the budget exigencies, the department conducted two successful searches this year, adding colleagues in areas of
importance for both our graduate and undergraduate programs. Professor Susan D. Pennybacker has moved from Trinity College to
become the new Poston Chair of British History. Prof. Pennybacker has written extensively on modern British history; her most recent
book is a major study of transnational and multi-racial reform circles in interwar Britain entitled From Scottsboro to Munich: Race
and Political Culture in 1930s Britain. She will teach classes in British history, a field that badly needs new blood after the passing of
Richard Soloway and the retirement of Barbara Harris.
We are also pleased to welcome Flora Cassen, who will be an Assistant Professor of Medieval Jewish History and the Van der
Horst Scholar. Prof. Cassen is moving from the University of Vermont. She received her B.A. in Law and History from the Free
University of Brussels (1999), her M.A. in Comparative History from Brandeis University (2000), and completed her Ph.D. in History
and Judaic Studies at New York University. Next year she will be on fellowship at Columbia University while she revises her
manuscript on “The Yellow Badge in Renaissance Italy: A Social and Political Study of Anti-Jewish Discrimination” for publication.
Also joining the faculty this year is Marcus Bull, the Mellon Professor of Medieval History. Prof. Bull accepted an offer from the
department last year but remained at his previous institution, the University of Bristol, until this summer. Prof. Bull has written
important works on knightly piety, medieval miracles, and the Middle ages more broadly, as well as numerous articles and editing
three major collections. The arrival of Profs. Bull and Cassen will be an important addition to the ranks of scholars of our energetic
but understaffed pre-modern faculty and a testament to the department’s commitment to maintain strength in the field.
Prof. Tania String, Prof. Bull’s wife, will also join the department as an Adjunct Associate Professor. Prof. String received her
PhD from the University of Texas in Art History (1996) and is the author of the acclaimed Art and Communication in the Reign of
Henry VIII (2008), the co-editor of two works, and a contributor to numerous collections and journals. She also has organized major
exhibits and contributed to exhibition catalogs. She is currently completing a book on “Masculinity and the Male Body in Renaissance
Art.” Prof. String will divide her time between the departments of History and Art.
The ranks of our Latin American faculty will expand with the addition of Prof. Miguel La Serna. A specialist in modern Latin
America, especially Peru, Miguel La Serna received his B.A. from UC, Davis (2002) and his MA and PhD from UC, San Diego
(2008). Miguel is already a familiar and welcome colleague after spending the past two years on a postdoctoral fellowship here in the
department.
These additions to our faculty, regrettably, have been matched by departures of valued colleagues. Dani Botsman and Crystal
Feimster have accepted positions in Asian History and African American history, respectively, at Yale University. Ahmed El
Shamsy will be moving to the department of Near East Studies at the University of Chicago. And Yasmin Saikia has accepted an
endowed professorship in peace studies at Arizona State University. Our best wishes to each of them.
The faculty was highly productive during the past year. In the succeeding pages can be found a litany of new books, articles,
essays, edited collections produced by this faculty. So too can be found an enviable list of awards and honors garnered by our
colleagues. Various faculty have received recognitions that warrant specific mention. Prof. Don Raleigh (Soviet) received the
Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Russian and East European Institute at Indiana University. Prof. Jim Leloudis (US and North
Carolina) was promoted to full professor. Sarah Shields (Middle East) was awarded the Bowman and Gray Term Professorship for
her distinguished record of teaching. She also has received fellowships from the ACLS, SSRC, and the NEH. Louise McReynolds
(Russia) has been awarded both NEH and Guggenheim fellowships. Fred Naiden (Ancient) has been awarded a fellowship at the
National Humanities Center, and Cynthia Radding (colonial Latin America) also received a fellowship from the National Humanities
Center as well as one from the John Carter Brown Library.
Other awards and accomplishments are described in the following pages, where you will also find summaries of the diverse
activities of our undergraduate and graduate students, emeriti faculty, and alumni. Taken together, these accumulated activities make
the History Department an exceptionally vibrant center for scholarship, teaching, and engagement with public audiences. And the
generous financial support of our many friends and alumni plays a vital role in the Department’s health, especially when this state and
university continue to face acute financial problems. I thank everyone who contributes to the work of the UNC History Department
and helps to sustain it.
W. Fitzhugh Brundage, Interim Chair
2009 - 2010
SOME NEWS OF THE FACULTY
CHRISTOPHER BROWNING’s book Remembering Survival: Inside a Nazi Slave Labor Camp was published by W.W. Norton in
January. He also published a review article “Evocation, Analysis, and ‘the Crisis of Liberalism’” in History and Theory. He spoke at
Birkbeck College, the Wiener Library, and the German Historical Institute in London and delivered a paper at a conference on Nazi
slave labor in Berlin. He also gave presentations at Stetson University, Pacific Lutheran University, Duke University, and the Virginia
Holocaust Museum. Email: cbrownin@email.unc.edu.
FITZ BRUNDAGE anticipated accomplishing much more than he did this past year. He published “Contentious and Collected:
Memory’s Future in Southern History” in the Journal of Southern History (August 2009) and completed a forthcoming essay on the
place of the Civil War in contemporary African American art. But he made much less progress than intended on “Torture in American
History: The Long View,” a book manuscript on the history of torture in the United States from the age of European contact to the
contemporary “war on terror.” He gave lectures at Wabash College, Park University, University of Pittsburgh, and North Dakota State
University, as well as the keynote address at a conference on “John Brown, Slavery, and the Legacies of Revolutionary Violence in
Our Own Time,” at Yale University. He presented work at the University of Sydney in Australia and the National University of
Singapore. He also served on the Program Committee for the 2011 American Historical Association Annual Meeting. Finally, he
served as interim chair of the History Department. Email: brundage@email.unc.edu.
CHAD BRYANT spent the year on research and study leave at the National Humanities Center, where he continued work on his book
project, “Encountering Prague: History and Place in a Central European City.” An article published by the Austrian History Yearbook,
“Into an Uncertain Future: Railroads and Vormärz Liberalism in Brno, Vienna, and Prague,” received special commendation from the
R. John Rath article prize committee of the Center for Austrian Studies. In the past year he spoke about the fall of Communism at the
Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies annual conference and about travel and Czech nationalism in Prague at the “Cities
and Nationalisms” conference sponsored by the Centre for Metropolitan History in London. This summer Bryant traveled to Prague
where, thanks to a grant from the Center for European Studies, he conducted further research on his book project—research that he
will integrate into his classes, including HI 260 “Eastern Europe from the Enlightenment to the Present.”
Email: bryantc@email.unc.edu.
MELISSA MERIAM BULLARD has continued as Director of Graduate Studies for the department. Cuts to UNC’s instructional
budget have presented significant challenges for managing the graduate program, and she is very happy it has been possible to arrange
funding for an entering class of eighteen new students in 2010. In March Bullard delivered the keynote address at the Mid-Atlantic
Renaissance and Reformation conference held at Washington and Lee University entitled “The Secrets of a Renaissance Merchant in
his Studiolo,” which explored the beginnings of private fine arts collections and values associated with them in the Renaissance. She
also completed an essay to appear next year on “William Roscoe’s Renaissance in America,” part of her on-going interest in the
Transatlantic Renaissance. Email: mbullard@email.unc.edu.
PETER A. COCLANIS published the following pieces this year: “Two Cheers for Revolution: The Virtues of Regime Change in
World Agriculture” Historically Speaking 10 (June 2009); “’Everything Also I Want’: Another Look at Consumer Culture in
Contemporary Singapore,” Business and Economic History On-Line 7 (2009); “Globalism Grounded: The South in/and/versus the
World,” Diplomatic History 33 (September 2009); “Tangible Global Competency,” International Educator 18 (November-December
2009); “Field Work by the Sage of East Tennessee,” Reviews in American History 37 (December 2009); “A City of Frenzied
Shoppers? Reinterpreting Consumer Behavior in Contemporary Singapore,” The Journal of the Historical Society 9 (December 2009);
“No One Talks to the Generals,” Strategic Insights 8 (December 2009); “The Virtues of Agricultural Revolution,” World History 199,
no. 6 (December 2009) [in Chinese]; “The Hidden Dimension: ‘European’ Treaties in Global Perspective, 1500-1800,” Historically
Speaking 11 (January 2010); “The Audacity of Hope: Economic History Today,” AHA Perspectives in History 48 (January 2010);
“Russia’s Demographic Crisis and Gloomy Future,” The Chronicle Review: A Weekly Magazine of Ideas in The Chronicle of Higher
Education, February 19, 2010; (with Mart Stewart) “Precarious Paddies: The Uncertain, Unstable, and Insecure Lives of Rice Farmers
in the Mekong Delta,” Proceedings, International Conference on Environmental Change, Agricultural Sustainability, and Economic
Development in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam (March 2010); “Introduction,” in Twilight in the Rice Fields: Letters of the Heyward
Family, 1862-1871, ed. Allen H. Stokes and Margaret Belser Hollis (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2010). He also
published the following essays on sports: “SEC Talent Edge a Speed Trap,” Chicago Tribune, November 21, 2009; “Peppers to the
Rescue? SLAM Online, March 19, 2010; “Peppers to the Rescue? Part 2: The Rose Connection,” SLAM Online, March 22, 2010. In
addition, he published seven op-ed pieces: one in the Wall Street Journal (February 3, 2010), three in the Raleigh News & Observer,
and three in the Durham Herald-Sun. He published eight book reviews in 2009-2010—five in academic journals and three in the
Raleigh News & Observer. He presented a paper at the annual meeting of the Business History Conference (Milan, Italy, June 2009)
and was on two roundtables at the 2010 meeting of the American Historical Association (San Diego, January 2010). He also presented
papers at Koc University (Istanbul, Turkey, June 2010), King’s College London (October 2009), and at Can Tho University (Can Tho,
Vietnam, March 2010). In September 2009 he debated Pulitzer Prize winner Stanley L. Engerman (on slavery and the Civil War) in a
program sponsored by the University of South Carolina and South Carolina Educational TV (the program was aired in November
2009), and in February 2010 delivered the Salameno Distinguished Lecture at Stonehill College in Easton, Massachusetts. Closer to
home, he presented papers at the Triangle Economic History Workshop (October 2009) and at the Carolina Population Center
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(October 2009), and he also lectured in Bradenton, Florida (November 2009) in the OAH Distinguished Lecturer Series. He serves on
the editorial boards of the following journals—Agricultural History, Enterprise and Society, the Journal of Interdisciplinary History,
and Southern Cultures—and is Associate Editor of the Journal of the Historical Society. He served on book prize committees for the
Agricultural History Society and the Economic History Association, is a trustee of the Business History Conference, 2d Vice President
of the Southern Industrialization Project, and serves on a committee in the Southern Historical Association. In April 2010 he
participated in an external review of the History Department at the University of Delaware, and continues to serve on the Singapore
Ministry of Education’s International Expert Panel. In December 2009 he moved from his position as Associate Provost for
International Affairs at UNC-Chapel Hill to become the first Director of UNC’s newly established Global Research Institute. He
continues to travel widely, and during the 2009-2010 academic year made three trips to Singapore, two to the U.K., and single trips to
Italy, Turkey, Hong Kong, Thailand, and Myanmar. Email: coclanis@unc.edu.
KATHLEEN DUVAL published a chapter on “The Mississippian Peoples’ Worldview” in Geography and Ethnography: Perceptions
of the World in Pre-Modern Societies, edited by UNC History Professor Richard Talbert and Kurt A. Raaflaub. For the Fourth of July
(2009), she wrote an Op-Ed in the New York Times titled “Life, Liberty and Benign Monarchy?”. DuVal’s article “Indian
Intermarriage and Métissage in Colonial Louisiana” (William and Mary Quarterly, 2008) won the A. Elizabeth Taylor Prize for the
best article in southern women’s history from the Southern Association for Women Historians and the Joan Jensen-Darlis Miller Prize
for best article in western gender history from the Coalition for Western Women’s History and the Western History Association, and it
received honorable mention for the best article in the field of ethnohistory from the American Society for Ethnohistory. She gave talks
at Indiana University, the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and the annual Organization
of American Historians meeting. She serves on the board of UNC’s Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) program, the
Advisory Council of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR), and the Board of Editors of the Journal of
the Early Republic and the Arkansas Historical Quarterly. She co-organizes the Triangle Early American History Seminar (TEAHS),
which meets monthly in RTP. On campus, she welcomed first-year students by giving the “professors’ perspective” talk at orientation,
and she organized the History Department’s contribution to the UNC Admissions Office’s Explore Carolina Program. Among her
other classes, she very much enjoyed teaching the Honors in History seminar, leading a group of senior history majors in writing their
honors theses. Email: duval@email.unc.edu.
AHMED EL SHAMSY contributed a chapter on early Islamic theology and legal theory, titled “The Wisdom of God’s Law: Two
Theories,” to a Festschrift volume in honor of Bernard Weiss (forthcoming from Brill). He presented a paper on medieval Islamic
education at the meeting of the American Oriental Society, and another on early twentieth-century legal reform in Egypt at a
workshop at Duke University. In November, he received the Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Award of the Middle East Studies
Association for his 2009 dissertation on the history of Islamic law. Email: elshamsy@email.unc.edu.
BILL FERRIS published a book on Mississippi blues musicians and artists entitled, Give My Poor Heart Ease (UNC Press, 2009).
With Glenn Hinson of UNC’s American Studies Department, he co-edited The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture Volume 14:
Folklife (UNC Press, 2009). He also wrote a piece on “The Devil and His Blues: James ‘Son Ford’ Thomas” for the journal Southern
Cultures (Fall 2009). He exhibited his black-and-white photographs from his new book at UNC (Center for the Study of the American
South, Fall 2009; Davis Library, Spring 2010) and at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans (April-July 2010). For the
2009 Appalachian Music Symposium in Cashiers, North Carolina, he delivered a talk on Appalachian Music and Culture (May 2009).
He delivered the keynote address at the Southern Governors’ Association’s 75th Anniversary Celebration at Roosevelt’s Little White
House in Warm Springs, Georgia (November 2009). In February, 2010, he spoke on interpretations of the blues as a democratization
of information to the Phi Theta Kappa annual Faculty Scholars conference in Jackson, Mississippi. Also in February, 2010, he
delivered a talk to a public audience in Washington, DC on his fieldwork and findings in Mississippi as part of the Library of
Congress’s Botkin Lecture Series. He delivered a public address and presented the Maine Humanities Council’s Constance H. Carlson
Public Humanities Prize to Dr. Joseph Conforti (April 2010). Ferris also organized visits to UNC by Professor Michael Moloney (New
York University), speaking on Irish-Jewish collaboration in Tin Pan Alley; keyboardist Jojo Hermann (Widespread Panic), speaking
on the development of modern New Orleans piano styles; and Congressman John Spratt (D-SC), speaking on current health care
legislation and its relationship to the South. Email: wferris@unc.edu.
W. MILES FLETCHER completed his sixth year as the Associate Chair and Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Department.
In March, he presented a paper, “Dreams of Transformation and the Reality of Economic Crisis: Keidanren in the Era of the ‘Bubble’
and the ‘Lost Decade,’ 1985-1995,” at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies.
Email: wmfletch@email.unc.edu.
KAREN HAGEMANN finished her work on three edited volumes that present results of the two large comparative research projects
she directed between 2004-05 and 2008-09: 1) “The German Half-Day Model: A European Sonderweg?” The ‘Time Politics’ of
Public Education in Post-war Europe: An East-West Comparison,” funded by the Volkswagen (VW) Foundation, and 2) “Nations,
Borders, Identities: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in European Experiences and Memories,” funded by the Arts and
Humanities Research Council and the German Research Foundation. Two of the volumes are in print: Gender, War, and Politics:
Transatlantic Perspectives, 1775 – 1830, ed. with Gisela Mettele and Jane Rendall (Houndsmills and Basingstoke: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2010); and Children, Families and States: Time Policies of Child Care, Preschool and Primary Schooling in Europe, ed.
with Konrad H. Jarausch and Cristina Allemann-Ghionda (Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books, 2010); and one is in the final state
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of production: War Memories: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in 19th and 20th Century Europe, ed. with Alan Forrest and
Etienne François (Houndsmills and Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). She also published an article in the leading German
pedagogical journal on “Die Ganztagsschule als Politikum: Die westdeutsche Entwicklung in gesellschafts- und
geschlechtergeschichtlicher Perspektive,” Zeitschrift für Pädagogik (Supplement) 55, no 1 (2009): 209-29, and published a book
chapter on “The Military and Masculinity: Gendering the History of the French Wars, 1792–1815,” in War in an Age of Revolution,
1775-1815, ed. Roger Chickering and Stig Förster (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. 331-52.
Finally she organized a two-day series of panels on “Gendering the Revolutionary Era, 1750-1850 - Comparative Perspectives” for
the Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, 1750-1850 in Charleston, SC, in February 2010, and, together with the UNC Institute for
Arts and Humanities, a series of events (Mary Stevens Reckford Lecture on European Studies, graduate reading seminar and two-day-workshop)
on “Gendering Historiographies of Nation and Empire” and “Gender and Empire – Comparative Perspectives” with
Professor Catherine Hall (University College London) in March 2010. Email: hagemann@email.unc.edu.
KONRAD H. JARAUSCH stayed put in Chapel Hill last year, but spent the summer in Berlin as usual. Because of the 20th
anniversary of the fall of the Wall, he gave over half a dozen keynotes from Haifa in Israel to Chicago, Madison and Seattle, not to
mention Iowa City and Washington DC. At the same time he completed editing with several German colleagues a volume on
"Gebrochene Wissenschaftskulturen. Universität imd Politik im 20. Jahrhundert" that is just coming out with the Vandenhoeck and
Ruprecht Verlag. Work on the English edition of his father's letters and the third volume of the history of the Humboldt University
(1945-2000) for its bicentennial is continuing. Otherwise he was happy to see another couple of students finish excellent dissertations.
Email: jarausch@email.unc.edu.
JOHN KASSON spent the academic year 2009-2010 at the National Humanities Center in Research Triangle Park, NC. With the
support of a John Medlin, Jr. Senior Fellowship, he worked on his book manuscript, tentatively titled, “The Little Girl Who Fought the
Great Depression: Shirley Temple and 1930s America.” Earlier, in June 2009, he served as co-Instructor (with Professors Karen Lucic
and Sean McCann) in a two-week workshop for secondary school teachers on the topic, “Becoming Modern: America, 1918-1929,”
held at the National Humanities Center. Over the course of the past year, he delivered portions of his research on his book-in-progress
at various forums. These included a paper, “’Mr. Gloom Be on Your Way’: Shirley Temple, Hollywood, and Emotional Recovery
during the Great Depression,” at a workshop on “Historical Constructions of Nations, Identities, and Ideologies through Popular
Culture,” held at the National University of Singapore in May 2009. He made a similar presentation at the US Study Centre at the
University of Sydney, also in May 2009. At the annual meeting of the American Studies Association in Washington, DC in November
2009, he presented a paper, “Sustaining a Smile in the Great Depression: Bill “Bojangles” Robinson.” He also gave public talks on his
work on Shirley Temple and the Great Depression at the North Carolina Museum of History, the Durham County Library, and
Carolina Meadows. John also served as consultant on women in twentieth-century American art for an on-line exhibition at the Hunter
Museum of American Art in Chattanooga, TN, and on a forthcoming exhibition on Houdini at the Jewish Museum in New York City.
Email: jfkasson@email.unc.edu.
RICHARD H. KOHN had another busy year, probably typical of faculty who think they will have more time for research and writing
in “phased retirement.”. He published two articles: “Tarnished Brass: Is the U.S. Military Profession in Decline?” World Affairs,
171(Spring 2009):73-83, and “Building Trust: Civil-Military Behaviors for Effective National Security,” in Suzanne Nielsen and Don
Snider, eds., American Civil-Military Relations: Realities and Challenges in the New Era (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press,
2009), 264-289. Another piece, in the 2009 summer issue of the Duke Law Journal, commented critically on an article on civil-military
relations by the former Bush Justice Department lawyer John Yoo. He was active lecturing on current civil-military relations
to a number of military and civilian audiences, and on the presidential war leadership of George W. Bush, as well as on military
professional ethics and to the Humanities Program and to alums of the University, on how the Vietnam War has been remembered. In
November he will be the faculty lecturer for an alumni/ae trip to Vietnam—information on the trip is on the Alumni Association
website. He also accepted appointment to a Department of Defense study group to review the 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review, a
review every four years required by Congress of the country’s defense strategy and force structure. Email: rhkohn@email.unc.edu.
LLOYD KRAMER used two much-appreciated research fellowships to support a year’s leave from teaching and administrative
duties. A Kenan fellowship from UNC enabled him to spend some time in Paris during the fall semester and to complete the
manuscript for a new book on the history of nationalism. He held a Chapman Family Fellowship in the spring semester at UNC’s
Institute for the Arts and Humanities, where he learned from the interdisciplinary faculty exchanges and made progress on a book-length
study of nineteenth-century French and American travel writers. Kramer also participated in a provocative conference on
contemporary intellectual history at Cornell University (which honored his long-ago graduate advisor, Dominick LaCapra, in
September 2009), presented a paper on the historian R. R. Palmer at the annual meeting of the Western Society for French History
(October 2009), and contributed a paper to the collaborative UNC-National University of Singapore conference on “History, Memory
and Popular Culture” (May 2010). He also gave talks at Central Michigan University and North Carolina Wesleyan College,
presented his recent research to the Triangle Area French Studies Seminar and the History Department’s lunchtime faculty
colloquium, and led a program on “Teaching the History of Human Rights” for the Department’s Project for Historical Education
(PHE). Finally, he returned to the position of History Department chair in July 2010—revitalized for a new three-year opportunity to
help lead UNC’s dynamic community of historians and thankful for Fitz Brundage’s departmental leadership over the past year.
E-mail: lkramer@email.unc.edu.
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CHRISTOPHER J. LEE taught during the fall semester and was on sabbatical during the spring semester, when he was the D. Earl
Pardue Faculty Fellow at the Institute for the Arts and Humanities. He used this time to complete his first book for Cambridge
University Press. In January, he was also a CNRS fellow at the Institute of French Studies at NYU, where he is participating in a
project on historical memory. He had an article appear in the Journal of Family History, entitled “Children in the Archives: Epistolary
Evidence, Youth Agency, and the Social Meanings of ‘Coming of Age’ in Interwar Nyasaland” (January 2010, Vol. 35 Issue 1, pp.
24-47), as well as forthcoming work accepted in the journals Research in African Literatures and Law and History Review. Chris also
had two op-ed pieces appear this year, one entitled “Fiscal Crises and the Question of Community” (The Chronicle of Higher
Education, April 2, 2010) and the second “Racist Undertones of the ‘Socialist’ Epithet” (The Christian Science Monitor, October 16,
2009). His edited volume on decolonization and the postcolonial politics of the Cold War, entitled Making a World After Empire: The
Bandung Moment and Its Political Afterlives (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2010), will appear over the summer. In addition to
teaching and publishing, Chris presented papers at the annual conference of the North American Conference on British Studies in
Lexington, Kentucky and at the University of Ilorin in Nigeria. He was also invited to speak at the conference From Bandung to
Tehran: Transnational Networks in the Postcolonial World in April at Williams College. Finally, he was co-chair of the bi-annual
conference of the Southeastern Regional Seminar in African Studies (SERSAS) entitled “Faith, Culture, and the Politics of Belonging
in Africa,” held at UNC’s Global Education Center in April. But he is most pleased to report that his former honors thesis advisee,
Diana Gergel, has been accepted into the PhD program in African history at the University of California, Berkeley, where she will
enroll this fall. Email: cjlee1@email.unc.edu.
WAYNE LEE spent this year adjusting to being the chair of the Curriculum in Peace, War, and Defense. The Curriculum now has
270+ majors and juggling their needs is a joy and challenge. He published "Using the Natives against the Natives: Indigenes as
'Counterinsurgents' in the British Atlantic, 1500-1800," in the UK's staff college journal Defence Studies. His next book, Barbarians
and Brothers: Anglo-American Warfare, 1500-1865, will appear in the spring of 2011 from Oxford University press. He also has two
edited volumes under way, both with NYU press, one is complete and in press, entitled Empires and Indigenes: Intercultural Alliance,
Imperial Expansion, and Warfare in the Early Modern World, and the other is Warfare and Culture in World History. He has written
essays for two additional edited volumes, one on "hybrid warfare" in sixteenth-century Ireland, and the other on the problem of war
termination at the end of the War of 1812. On the archaeological side, the Shala Valley Project received a write-up grant from the
School of Advanced Research in Santa Fe, NM, which allowed the participating authors to gather to revise and coordinate the ongoing
production of the project's forthcoming volume, for which he has written two chapters. The project also published its initial findings in
the online journal Internet Archaeology, entitled "Fort, Tower, or House? Building a Landscape of Settlement in the Shala Valley of
High Albania," it is available at http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue27/galaty_index.html. He gave invited lectures at the University of
Southern Mississippi, Ohio State University, the University of New Brunswick, and the city of Hampton, Va.
Email: welee@email.unc.edu.
LISA LINDSAY developed two new classes this year: an undergraduate honors seminar called “The United States and Africa,” and a
first year seminar called “African History through Popular Music.” She presented a paper called “Remembering His Country Marks:
An African American in 19th Century Yorubaland,” at the African Studies Association annual meeting in New Orleans in November
2009 and the African Diaspora Studies Symposium at North Carolina Central University in March 2010. In February 2010 she
presented a seminar to the department’s Project for Historical Education called “The Giants of Africa: Politics and Popular Culture in
South Africa and Nigeria.” Email: lalindsa@email.unc.edu.
ROGER LOTCHIN’s only professional contribution this year was a seminar with TISS, where I gave a talk and listened to
comments about my study of Japanese Americans in World War II. I argued that it was absurd, and bordered on ludicrous, to call the
camps "concentration camps'" and that the fact of race, as a motivating factor for creating the camps was overemphasized. I did not
argue that race played no role, only that its role has been exaggerated. That made a large part of the audience angry.
Email: rlotchin@email.unc.edu.
MALINDA MAYNOR LOWERY published her first book, Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South: Race, Identity, and the Making
of a Nation (UNC Press, 2010). In the Fall of 2009 she began a tenure-track appointment as Assistant Professor of History at UNC-Chapel
Hill, after holding a similar position at Harvard University for four years. In 2009 she published two articles, “Telling Our
Own Stories: Writing Lumbee History In the Shadow of the BAR,” American Indian Quarterly 33 (Fall 2009): 499-522; and “Indians,
Southerners, and Americans: Race, Tribe, and Nation During Jim Crow,” James A. Hutchins Lecture at UNC-Chapel Hill, 26
February 2009, Native South 2 (2009): 1-22. She also published three book reviews in the past year: Yaqui Homeland and Homeplace,
by Kirstin C. Erickson for American Indian Culture and Research Journal; Hawaiian Blood, by J. Kehaulani Kauanui, also for
AICRJ; and Choctaw Crime and Punishment, by Devon Mihesuah, for American Historical Review. She gave invited presentations at
Indiana University, the University of New Mexico, the Historical Society of North Carolina, and Harvard University, in addition to
conference presentations at the annual meetings of the American Society for Ethnohistory (October, 2009) and the Native American
and Indigenous Studies Association (May, 2010). She served as Co-Principal Investigator on two grants through UNC’s American
Indian Center, and as Faulty Director of “Study Aborad in the Cherokee Nation,” a program through the Burch Field Research
Seminars that will run in Summer 2011. She received funds for development of a service-learning, collaborative research course on
Lumbee History through the Center for Faculty Excellence/Lenovo Instructional Innovation Grants and the Ueltschi Service-Learning
Course Development Award. The course was first taught in Spring of 2010 and is available to the public at http://lumbee.web.unc.edu.
Her own research has received a Junior Faculty Development Award and a University Research Council grant. Her next book involves
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coal mining in the Choctaw Nation of Indian Territory in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She has been appointed to
the Program Committee of the Southern Historical Association’s 2011 Annual Meeting and nominated to serve on the Nominating
Committee of the American Society for Ethnohistory. She is actively exploring social media and digital technology as a platform for
engaging students and communities in Native American history; follow her on Twitter @malindalowery and visit her website,
http://malindamaynorlowery.wordpress.com.
TERENCE McINTOSH presented two papers in the North Carolina German Studies Seminar and Workshop Series: "Pietists,
Jurists, and the Disciplining of the Parish in Early Enlightenment Germany" (Chapel Hill, NC, 28 March 2010) and "Early Modern
Lutheran Pastors and the Stubborn Belief That They Could Remit Sins" (Greenville, NC, 10 April 2010). He served as commentator
of the session "Mixed Matches: Transgressive Unions in the German Literary Imagination" at the thirty-third annual meeting of the
German Studies Association (Arlington, VA, 10 October 2009). Email: terence_mcintosh@unc.edu.
LOUISE McREYNOLDS performed at more venues than usual this year. She gave papers at two conferences: the American
Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (November, Boston)and the Southern Slavic Conference (March, Gainesville). In
addition, she gave invited talks at Brock University, the University of Toronto, and the University of Southern California. Three
articles appeared in print: “The Murderer in the City: Narratives of Urbanism,” (in Russian), in Boris Kolonitskii and Mark Steinberg,
eds., The Cultures of the Cities of the Russian Empire at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (St. Petersburg: Evropeiskii dom);
“Demanding Men, Desiring Women and Social Collapse in the Films of Evgenii Bauer, 1913-1917,” in Studies in Russian and Soviet
Cinema 3:2 (2009): 145-56; and “Who Cares Who Killed Ivan Ivanovich? Detective Fiction in Late Imperial Russia,” in Russian
History/Russe Histoire 36:3 (2009): 391-406. Most important (for her), she received grants from the National Endowment for the
Humanities and the John S. Guggenheim Foundation that will permit her to take next year off and write her book on sensational
murder in late imperial Russia. Email: louisem@email.unc.edu.
FRED NAIDEN published “Spartan Naval Performance in the Decelean War,” in the Journal of Military History. He also gave a talk
on the Spartan military, “Spartan Officers, Unspartan Men,” at Tulane University, and presided over a panel on ancient military
history at the annual conference of the Association of Ancient Historians (AAH). In another field of interest, ancient religion, he
received a 2010-2011 grant from the National Humanities Center to work on a monograph on ancient animal sacrifice, “Smoke
Signals for the Gods.” He gave two talks on religious topics, “The Stranger at the Gate,” at the University of Illinois at Champaign-
Urbana, and “Alexander the Great as a Religious Leader,” at the AAH. Alexander was also the subject of a talk, “Dividing the
Subcontinent” at a conference entitled, “Along the Hindu Kush,” in New Orleans, La. This conference dealt with the origins of
Pakistan. An essay on ancient law, “The Legal (and other) Trials of Orestes,” appeared in Law and Drama in Classical Athens, a
collection of essays published by Duckworth. Email: naiden@email.unc.edu.
THEDA PERDUE published Race and the Atlanta Cotton States Exposition of 1895 (University of Georgia Press) and “Native
Americans, African Americans, and Jim Crow” in IndiVisible: African-Native American Lives in the Americas (Smithsonian
Institution Press). She lectured at East Carolina University, Reinhardt College, the Atlanta History Center, and Marshall University.
She is a member of the editorial boards of the American Indian Quarterly and Southern Cultures. She serves on the Executive Board
of the Organization of American Historians, and she is the vice-president (and president-elect) of the Southern Historical Association.
Email: tperdue@email.unc.edu.
CYNTHIA RADDING advanced work on her book project, entitled “Bountiful Deserts and Imperial Shadows: Seeds of Knowledge
and Corridors of Migration in Northern New Spain.” She obtained two fellowships for academic year 2010-2011 to support her
research and writing: the Helen Watson Buckner Memorial Fellowship, at the John Carter Brown Library, for June-September 2010,
and the Donnelley Family Fellowship at the National Humanities Center for October 2010-June 2011. She presented conference
papers at the American Society for Ethnohistory, The American Historical Association, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México,
and the Rocky Mountain Conference for Latin American Studies, and she presented two invited lectures at the Universidade Federal
de Goiás (Brazil). Radding developed two new courses for the undergraduate curriculum on Mexican History, taught a graduate
seminar on the methods of ethnohistory applied to Latin America, and contributed a guest lecture to one of the undergraduate course
clusters on War and Culture in the Age of Revolution. She led two senior research seminars, one for the History Department on
environmental history and the other for the Latin American Studies Program on frontiers and borderlands.
Email: radding@email.unc.edu.
DONALD J. RALEIGH taught a packed freshman seminar on Gorbachev and the new Russia, an upper division course on Soviet
history since 1929, a survey of modern Russia since 1861, and a graduate reading colloquium on Soviet history. He participated in the
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies annual meeting in Boston, and the regional affiliate conference in
Gainesville. At the meeting in Boston, the Russian and East European Institute at Indiana University presented him with its
Distinguished Alumnus Award. Raleigh spent several weeks in Moscow last summer tying up loose ends on a long-term oral history
project, Soviet Baby Boomers: A Portrait of Russia’s Cold War Generation, for which he received a contract from Oxford University
Press. During the year he completed the manuscript and packed it off to Oxford. A book review he authored appeared in the Journal of
Ecclesiastical History. He also launched work on a festschrift in honor of his dissertation mentor, and is currently exploring several
new book-length studies. He continues to serve on the editorial boards of the Journal of Social History, Russian Studies in History,
Soviet and Post-Soviet Review, and the Association of Researchers of Russian Society in the 20th century. Email: djr@email.unc.edu.
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DONALD REID published Les Mineurs de Decazeville: Historique de la désindustrialisation (Decazeville: A.S.P.I.B.D., 2009) and
“Didier Daeninckx: Raconteur of History,” South Central Review 27:1-2 (Spring-Summer 2010): 39-60.
Email:dreid1@email.unc.edu.
SARAH SHIELDS organized three weekend workshops and eleven evening seminars as part of the Sawyer Seminar program funded
by a grant from the Andrew Mellon Foundation. The topic for the year was Diversity and Conformity in Muslim Societies, and
discussions included a wide geographic range (Africa, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East). With co-Principal Investigator Banu
Gokariksel (Geography), she taught a graduate course that ran concurrently with the Sawyer Seminar and took advantage of the
national and international scholars who participated in the program. http://cgi.unc.edu/research/mellon-sawyer/09-10/index.php
Shields published “Mosul, the Ottoman Legacy, and the League of Nations,” in the International Journal of Contemporary Iraqi
Studies. She traveled to Florence, Italy to participate in the annual Mediterranean Research Meeting sponsored by the Schuman
Center; her paper, the first from her new research project, was “From Millet to Nation: The Limits of Consociational Resolutions for
Middle East Conflict.” Shields returned to Kansas State University to talk with campus groups and present her new research on human
rights, "Human Rights and the Israel/Palestine Conflict: An Imperial Problem." She continued her presentations to North Carolina
public audiences, participating in a seminar with the UNC Program in the Humanities and Human Values on “Changing Perceptions
of the Middle East: New Medias, New Audiences,” and discussing the Israel-Palestine conflict at the First Baptist Church in Raleigh
and Binkley Baptist Church in Chapel Hill. She received a Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies/Social Science
Research Council/National Endowment for the Humanities for 2010-2011 to continue her research on the emergence of identity
politics in the Middle East between the two World Wars. Email: sshields@email.unc.edu.
RICHARD TALBERT published with Kurt Raaflaub (Brown University) a wide-ranging volume, Geography and Ethnography:
Perceptions of the World in Pre-Modern Societies (Wiley-Blackwell), for which he wrote the introduction and a chapter “The Roman
Worldview: Beyond Recovery ?” A much appreciated contribution to this volume is also made by Kathleen DuVal, who wrote on
“The Mississippian Peoples’ Worldview”. Talbert’s chapter “Plutarch’s Sparta: Lieux de mémoire, trous de mémoire” appeared in
Athens-Sparta: Contributions to the Research on the History and Archaeology of the Two City-States edited by Nikolaos Kaltsas
(2009), and his overview “Emperor” appeared in the Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome, vol. 3 (2010). He contributed
a lengthy discussion of the Neue Pauly Historischer Atlas der antiken Welt to Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2009. Proofing of his
monograph Rome’s World: the Peutinger Map Reconsidered and preparation of its complex digital components for simultaneous
publication with the printed volume have proven very exacting and time-consuming tasks throughout the year. He accepted two
invitations to speak about the Artemidorus papyrus map, at the Warburg Institute, London, and at a conference hosted by the Società
Geografica Italiana, Rome. For the panel “Material Culture in the History Classroom: Techniques and Methods” at the 2010 American
Philological Association Annual Meeting (Anaheim, CA), he spoke on “Calibrating Cartographic Horizons for Today’s Ancient
History Classes.” In addition, he lectured on “Sparta: the Joker in the Pack” for Colgate University’s Institute for Philosophy, Politics,
and Economics; undertook a major review for Denmark’s Grundforskningsfond; chaired a session at the 2009 Association of Ancient
Historians Annual Meeting (Vancouver, Canada); and agreed to serve as Advisory Board member for the forthcoming Wiley-
Blackwell Encyclopedia of Ancient History. In Chapel Hill he had the honor to deliver the 2009 Program in the Humanities and
Human Values E. M. Adams Lecture, “Rome and the Power of Creative Cartography, AD 300-1500.” He accepted a further term as
Chair of the Program’s Faculty Advisory Board. He was also elected to a second three-year term as Chair of the Advisory Council to
the School of Classical Studies, American Academy in Rome. He continues as co-editor of the UNC Press series Studies in the History
of Greece and Rome, and as American Journal of Philology’s associate editor for ancient history. For his involvement with the
Ancient World Mapping Center, see its report. Email: talbert@email.unc.edu.
MICHAEL TSIN published an article "Rethinking 'State and Society' in Late Qing and Republican China" in Jens Damm and
Mechthild Leutner, eds., China Networks [Berliner China-Hefte/Chinese History and Society, vol. 35], and in collaboration with his
co-authors completed the revisions for the 3rd edition of Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: A History of the Modern World from the
Mongol Empire to the Present that is due out in 2011. He presented a paper titled "Orientalism and Overseas Chinese" at the annual
meeting of the Association for Asian Studies that he is in the process of revising for publication; served as a book review editor for the
Journal of Asian Studies; and will be a fellow at the Institute for the Arts and Humanities in the fall, during which time he will
continue his work on the book manuscript "Identity and the Reconfiguration of Difference in Twentieth-Century China."
Email: tsin@email.unc.edu.
ZARAGOSA VARGAS wrote a chapter on Mexican American civil rights, “Challenges to Solidarity,” for the edited volume
Freedom Train Derailed: Anticommunism and Civil Rights, 1945-1960 (Palgrave-Macmillan Press, 2009). His book Crucible of
Struggle: A History of Mexican America from Colonial Times to the Present will be published by Oxford University Press in
September 2010. In April 2009, Zaragosa was on the plenary session, “Race, Labor and the City: Crises Old and New” at the Labor
and Working Class History Association Annual Meeting at Roosevelt University in Chicago, Illinois. In this same month, he gave the
lecture “The Other Struggle for Equal Rights” at The Long Civil Rights Movement Conference at University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill. In March 2010, he lectured on contemporary Latino immigration to the South, “Globalization from Below,” at the Latin
American Migration Conference, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. In April 2010, Zaragosa was on the plenary session,
“State of the Field: New Directions in Working Class History,” at the Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting in
Washington, DC. This year Vargas was appointed Contributing Editor for the journal Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the
Americas. He now serves on the Planning Committee for the Organization of American Historians 2012 Annual Meeting. And
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recently he was elected to the Executive Board of the Southern Labor Studies Association. Email: vargas@email.unc.edu.
HARRY L. WATSON returned from a year’s leave on July 1, 2009 and resumed directing the Center for the Study of the American
South. He continues as editor of the Center’s quarterly journal, Southern Cultures. In October, he chaired an external review
committee for the Department of History at the University of South Carolina, and participated in two NEH workshops on Andrew
Jackson at the Hermitage in Nashville, TN in the summer of 2010. This year he served as president of the Historical Society of North
Carolina and president-elect of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic. Email: hwatson@email.unc.edu.
BRETT WHALEN published of his first book, Dominion of God: Christendom and Apocalypse in the Middle Ages (Harvard
University Press, 2009). He also published an essay titled “Teaching the End of Days: Medieval Meets Modern Apocalypse in the
Classroom,” in The End of Days: Understanding the Apocalypse from Antiquity to Modernity (2009). Over the course of the year, he
delivered several conference papers and lectures, including at Leeds in the U.K. and for the UNC Adventures in Ideas seminar series.
Currently, he is revising his source-reader Pilgrimage in the Middle Ages for the University of Toronto Press, and starting to work on
The Medieval Papacy: A Brief History for Palgrave Macmillan. Email: bwhalen@email.unc.edu.
THE HISTORY DEPARTMENT WELCOMES OUR NEW FACULTY:
Marcus G. Bull Joseph Caddell Miguel La Serna
Susan D. Pennybacker Tatiana C. String
(Photo courtesy of Dorothy Handleman)
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UNC WORKSHOP SERIES “GENDER, POLITICS AND CULTURE IN EUROPE AND BEYOND”
Workshop on “Gender and Empire – Comparative Perspectives”
March 26 - 27, 2010, UNC Chapel Hill, Institute for the Arts and Humanities
This workshop explored the complex connections between gender and empire in a comparative perspective. Participants contrasted
British colonial rule in North America, the Caribbean and India; French rule in the Caribbean and Africa; Habsburg rule in Central-
Eastern Europe; the Spanish Empire and its rule in Latin America; and the rule of the Ottoman Empire in the Middle East during the
long nineteenth century. The speakers discussed the specific characteristics of the different empires and the function of the gender
order for their rule in the colonies. The analysis focused on the concepts of femininity and masculinity that justified imperial rule, the
attempts to establish gendered lines of demarcation between ruler and ruled, and the gendered legacies of imperialism that influenced
the processes of decolonization and nation-building. Speakers at this very well attended event were Catherine Hall (University College
London), who gave the keynote, Beth Baron (CUNY Graduate School, Center for Middle East Studies), Emily Burrill (UNC Chapel
Hill), Laurent Dubois (Duke University), Maureen Healy (Lewis & Clark University), Asunción Lavrin (Arizona State University),
and Adele Perry (University of Manitoba). The event was jointly sponsored by the University of North Carolina (Center for European
Studies, Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies; Department of Women’s Studies; History Department; Initiative for
Transoceanic 18th and 19th-Century Studies (TOS); Institute for the Studies of the Americas) and Duke University (Women's Studies
Program, Department of History). It was organized by Karen Hagemann (UNC Chapel Hill, History) in co-operation with Chad
Bryant (UNC, Department of History), Emily Burrill (UNC, Department of Women’s Studies), and the UNC Graduate Working
Group on Gender History.
AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY MONTH LECTURE
The Department of History sponsored its sixth annual African American History Month Lecture on February 17, 2010. We were
pleased to welcome back to Chapel Hill, UNC History Ph.D., William P. Jones who delivered a lecture entitled, “Unknown Origins of
the March on Washington: Civil Rights Politics and the Black Working Class.” Jones is Associate Professor of History at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of The Tribe of Black Ulysses: African American Lumber Workers in the Jim Crow
South, a book about African American industrial workers in the early-20th Century. He is currently researching a book on race in the
service sector after World War II. His talk kept the audience of students, faculty, staff, and community residents fully engaged and
sparked a lively discussion.
The lecture was held in the Hitchcock Room of the Sonja Haynes Stone Center and was funded by the History Department with
additional support from departments and organizations across the University, including: Black Student Movement; Center for the
Study of the American South; Southern Oral History Program; Department of African and Afro-American Studies; Johnston Center
for Undergraduate Excellence; Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs through the Diversity Incentive Fund; The Sonja Haynes
Stone Center; and the UNC School of Law.
We have begun planning an exciting program for February 2011 which will address the subject of African Americans and the Civil
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THE VISIT OF PROFESSOR JÜRGEN KOCKA
The German Studies Workshop and the Center for European Studies joined with the History Department to co-sponsor the campus
visit of Professor Jürgen Kocka from the Free University of Berlin. Professor Kocka, whose influential work on social history at the
University of Bielefeld (1973-1988) helped to shape the so-called “Bielefeld” approach to historical studies, spoke on “Fashion and
Truth in the Writing of History: The Last 50 Years.” He also met with UNC faculty and graduate students to discuss new trends in
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EMERITI FACULTY
STANLEY CHOJNACKI gave a paper at the Renaissance Society meeting. In addition two of his former graduate students from
UNC and two other colleagues in the field organized two sessions and a reception in his honor to celebrate his life's work and
mentoring. It was a wonderful occasion. Email: venetian@email.unc.edu.
BARBARA HARRIS delivered the Presidential Address at the North American Conference of British Studies in November 2009. It
will be published in the Journal of British Studies in the Fall 2010 issue. She also delivered a paper at the 2010 Renaissance Society of
America Conference in Venice in April. In June, she presented a paper at the Medieval and Early Modern London Seminar at the
Institute for Historical Research in London. All of these papers grow out of the research and writing she is doing for a current book
project, "The Fabric of Piety: Aristocratic English Women 1450-1550." Email: bharris@email.unc.edu.
MICHAEL MCVAUGH has been awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Emeritus Fellowship to produce an edition of the Speculum
medicine of the medieval physician Arnau de Vilanova, and is working on this during 2009- 2011. In addition, during the past year he
published (with Gerrit Bos) an edition of Maimonides, On Poisons and the Protection against Lethal Drugs (Provo, Utah: Brigham
Young University Press, 2009). He also published three papers: “The ‘Experience-Based Medicine’ of the Thirteenth Century,” Early
Science and Medicine 14 (2009), 105-30; “Historical Awareness in Medieval Surgical Treatises,” in Geschichte der
Medizingeschichtsschreibung, ed. Thomas Rütten, 2 vols. (Remscheid, 2009), vol. 1, 171-99; and “Towards a Stylistic Grouping of
the Translations of Gerard of Cremona,” Mediaeval Studies 71 (2009), 99-112. He delivered three invited papers to national and
international conferences: “ ‘Evidence-Based Medicine’ in the Middle Ages?”, to a colloquium on “The Temper of Evidence I: From
Antiquity to the Renaissance,” California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, 23 May 2009; “Turning the Chirurgia of Teodorico into
Catalan,” presented to the ICREA Conference “Ciència i Societat a la Corona d’Aragó,” Barcelona (Spain), 21 October 2009; and “On
the Individuality of the Medieval Translator,” to a conference on “Agents and Agency in Transmission, Translation and
Transformation,” McGill University, Toronto (Canada), 27 April 2010. Closer to home, he spoke on “Arabic into Latin (Or, Why
Medical Schools Got Started),” to a joint meeting of the Bullitt Medical History Club (UNC) and Trent Medical History Society
(Duke) held in Chapel Hill, 10 November 2009. Email: mcvaugh@email.unc.edu.
RICHARD W. PFAFF published The Liturgy in Medieval England: a History (620 pages; Cambridge University Press). At the
annual meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, this year in New Haven, a session was held in his honor and he was presented
with a Festschrift, The Study of Medieval Manuscripts of England, edited by George Hardin Brown and Linda Ehrsam Voigts
(Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, with Brepols), sixteen substantial essays by colleagues from three continents.
Email: pfaffrw@email.unc.edu.
GERHARD L. WEINBERG participated by giving papers or commenting on papers at conferences in Leeds (UK), Stuttgart and
Munich (Germany), Warsaw (Poland), Middle Tennessee State University, Liberty University and the National D-Day Memorial, the
German Studies Association, the Southern Historical Association, UNC-Charlotte, Hampden-Sydney College, and the National World
War II Museum. He gave invited lectures at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, High Point University, Central Michigan
University, Dutchess County Community College, the Pritzker Military Library, for the Humanities Program and World View, as well
as for the Naval War College and its extension program. He spent a week as a special visiting professor and gave a series of talks at
the University of Toronto. He was awarded the 2009 Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Writing of Military History by the Pritzker
Library and Foundation. The US Holocaust Memorial Museum published his talk, “Crystal Night 1938 as Experienced Then and as
Understood Now” in its series of Occasional Papers; his talk, “The Holocaust and the Nuremberg Trials” was published in Nancy
Rupprecht and Wendy Koenig (eds.), Holocaust Persecution: Responses and Consequences (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge
Scholars Publishing, 2010), pp. 132-41. Email: gweinber@email.unc.edu.
ALUMNI NEWS
TED ALTHOLZ (MA/1972/Cecil) and his team moved into their new offices at Merrill lynch’s flagship Atlanta office in November
2009. Ted, a Merrill first v.p., completed his thirty-third year in the investment industry last September.
CHRIS MYERS ASCH (MA/2000/Leloudis/PhD/2005/Hall) made his way back to campus in 2009, taking a job as an administrator
and faculty member at the reinvigorated University of the District of Columbia. He is coordinating UDC's effort to launch a National
Center for Urban Education, serves as co-director of the new Honors Program, and teaches history. More interestingly, he and his
wife, Erica, gave birth to their second daughter, Robin, in December. Email: casch@udc.edu.
BRUCE E. BAKER (PhD/2003/Hall) continued to teach at Royal Holloway, University of London. Last autumn, he and the other
participants in the “After Slavery” project launched the project’s website at http://www.afterslavery.com. It has a large collection of
primary source documents about Reconstruction along with introductory essays and study questions. In March, he helped organize the
“Race, Labor and Citizenship in the Post-Emancipation South” conference in Charleston. At the same time, he took over as co-editor
of American Nineteenth Century History. This has been very interesting and quite a lot of work. Email: bruce.baker@email.rhul.ac.uk
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STEPHEN BERRY (MA/1993/PhD/2000/Barney) stays busy and happy at UGA. Though currently writing Haunted Palace: The
Unbeautiful Mind of Edgar Allan Poe for Houghton Mifflin, he has not quit the Civil War entirely. Last fall he organized the first
annual “UnCivil Wars” conference at the T.R.R. Cobb House in Athens, Georgia. The inaugural theme was “Weirding the War”—an
attempt to do for Civil War history what freakonomics does for its discipline. The resulting essays will be collected as the first volume
of a new Civil War series at UGA Press, which Steve will co-edit with Amy Murrell Taylor. His own essay was entitled, “The
Historian as Death Investigator”—a meditation on his research into the nineteenth century coroner’s office. Check out wsw.uga.edu
for more information. Email: berry@uga.edu.
ROBERT D. BILLINGER, JR. (PhD/1973/Cecil), a native of Bethlehem, PA, is the Ruth Davis Horton Professor of History at
Wingate University, where he has taught since 1979. He is also the chair of the Wingate University History Department. In 2008 he
was chair of the European History Section of the SHA. In 2010 he is serving on the Local Arrangements Committee of the SHA for
the Charlotte, NC, meeting. Bob is a graduate of Lehigh University and completed graduate degrees at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill. He also was a Fulbright Graduate Scholar to Vienna, Austria. He is the author of three books: Metternich and
the German Question: States’ Rights and Federal Duties, 1820-1834; Hitler’s Soldiers in the Sunshine State: German POWs in
Florida; and Nazi POWs in the Tar Heel State.
EMILY BINGHAM (MA/1991/PhD/1998/Mathews) has continued with her biographical project on Henrietta Bingham, her great
aunt, which is now under contract. In March, she presented “Smith in Bloom: Mina Kirstein Curtiss and Henrietta Bingham;
Connecting Smith, Sexuality, Class, and Bloomsbury.” This was in conjunction with the opening of the exhibit, “A Room of Their
Own: Bloomsbury Artists in American Collections,” which opened in April. In the fall of 2009, she served as chair of the local
arrangements committee for the Southern Historical Association’s meeting in Louisville, Kentucky and was a member of the Southern
Association for Women’s Historians committee for the Anne Firor Scott Fellowship. Email: emily@emilybingham.net.
GLENN BLACKBURN (MA/1968/PhD/1974/Kraehe) recently published Maynard Adams: Southern Philosopher of Civilization
(Mercer University Press, 2009). The book is a full intellectual biography of Adams, a professor of philosophy at UNC-CH from 1950
to 1990. In five major books and over a hundred articles, Adams developed a comprehensive philosophy which demonstrates that
there are value and meaning dimensions of reality as well as the physical dimension. Blackburn is currently working on a history of
the North Carolina Coastal Federation, a large environmental organization that works to protect the North Carolina coast. In 2009, he
also helped facilitate establishment of a collection of the Coastal Federation's papers at the UNC-Wilmington library.
Email: jglenn22@verizon.net.
JOYCE M. BOWDEN (MA/1968/Bierck) is writing a history of her grandfather’s family in South Carolina, 1785-1920. During
research, she discovered she is distantly related to Louis Round Wilson through her great grandmother, Caroline Lucinda McCants.
No wonder she enjoyed spending so much time in Wilson Library, 1966-1968. Email: jm.bowden@comcast.net.
MICHELE ANDREA BOWEN (MA/1994/McNeil) had her fifth novel, More Church Folk, released in stores on July 28, 2010
(Grand Central Publishing a Division of Hachette Books USA, NY, NY). More Church Folk is the sequel to her bestseller, Church
Folk. She still lives in Durham, still sings solos in the Inspirational Singers Contemporary Gospel Choir at St. Joseph's AME Church
in Durham, and she is still busy writing novels. Right now, she is working on novel number six, to be set in Chapel Hill.
MARK L. BRADLEY (MA/2002/PhD/2006/Barney) is a historian at the U.S. Army Center of Military History in Washington, DC.
His third book, Bluecoats and Tar Heels: Soldiers and Civilians in Reconstruction North Carolina, was published by the University
Press of Kentucky in spring 2009. It received the North Caroliniana Society Award for Best Book on North Carolina in 2009. He
presented a paper at the Conference of Army Historians and published reviews in the North Carolina Historical Review.
Email: markbrad1@peoplepc.com.
BLAINE A. BROWNELL (MA/1967/Tindall/PhD/1969/Mowry) is retired in Charlottesville, Virginia and continues his work as a
consultant on academic planning and special projects at Zayed University, one of three national universities in the United Arab
Emirates, with main campuses in Dubai and Abu Dhabi. He serves as Chair of the International Student Exchange Programs (ISEP),
an organization of 300 member universities around the world, with headquarters in Washington, D.C. He is incoming Chair of the
Charlottesville Committee on Foreign Relations. He has been selected to write the recent history of his alma mater, Washington and
Lee University, from 1930 to 2001--a project to be completed in 2014. His entry on “The Commercial Civic Elite” appeared in Wanda
Rushing, ed., Urbanization, Vol. 15, The Encyclopedia of Southern Culture (UNC Press, 2010), pp. 34-38. He continues to serve as a
member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Urban History. Email: babrownell@earthlink.net.
D’ANN M. CAMPBELL (PhD/1979/Mowry) is moving from Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at Montana State
University Billings to Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the College at Culver Stockton (Canton, MO) and Professor
of History. She will be living in the old President’s house on campus, a 1895 Victorian house, and will be in charge when the
President is out of town. She has published three historiographical essays on various aspects of women in the military (US, NATO,
20th century, etc). She and her historian husband will keep their Billings house for retirement. She can be reached at
dann@danncampbell.net or Billings 991 Blonco Circle, Billings, MT 59105 or Canton, 800 College Street, Canton, MO 63435.
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CHARLES CARRERAS (MA/1967/PhD/1971/Bierck) retired from teaching Latin America history at Ramapo College last year
after 38 years. In his new life he teaches one course a year, lectures at local libraries on Latin America and is a volunteer at the
Mahwah History Society Museum. He is the head archivist and is currently researching and preparing an exhibit on Les Paul a fifty-five
year resident of Mahwah who died last year. He also helps with a service learn program for Ramapo College students with
Guatemalans in Morristown NJ and in Cajola, Guatemala. Email: ccarrera@ramapo.edu.
STEVEN A. CHANNING (PhD/1968/Williamson) continues mining rich stories of American history, many through the lens of the
North Carolina experience. Over the past year his earlier film February One: The Story of the Greensboro Four was re-broadcast
nationally by PBS on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Woolworth sit-ins. His Documentary film Change Comes Knocking,
on the pioneer antipoverty initiative “The North Carolina Fund” was both broadcast on UNC-TV and included as a DVD with Prof.
James Leloudis and Robert Korstad’s new UNC Press book To Right These Wrongs. And his film on the adventures of Jewish Tar
Heels, Down Home, was also broadcast on UNC-TV. Email: schanning@videodialog.com.
EVELYN M. CHERPAK (PhD/1973/Bierck) is head of the Naval Historical Collection at the Naval War College, Newport, RI. The
Naval War College Press published Three Splendid Little Wars: The Diary of Joseph K. Taussig, 1898-1901 that she edited in
September 2009. A talk and a book signing were held in November. She compiled and published a manuscript register to the papers of
Captain John Kane, USN (Ret.). She presented a paper on naval ephemera in the Naval Historical Collection at the Ephemera Society
Conference and gave a talk on Joseph K. Taussig at the Newport AARP meeting, both in March. She serves on the Publications and
Collections Committees of the Newport Historical Society. Email: Evelyn.Cherpak@USNWC.edu.
MARK CLODFELTER (PhD/1987/Leutze) taught courses on military strategy, applications in national security strategy, the
Vietnam War, and air power at the National War College, plus he led a faculty search committee and put the finishing touches on a
forthcoming book. In September he published “Back from the Future: The Impact of Change on Air Power in the Decades Ahead,” in
the Fall 2009 issue of Strategic Studies Quarterly. In September he also led the National War College’s staff ride to the Gettysburg
battlefield. In January 2010 he lectured on “The Air Wars in Vietnam” to the assembled student body and faculty of the Air Command
and Staff College in Montgomery, Alabama. During Spring 2010 he helped prepare a group of National War College students for a
regional field studies trip to Poland and Hungary. He also reviewed the copy edits for his new book, Beneficial Bombing: The
Progressive Foundations of American Air Power, 1917-1945, which will be published by University of Nebraska Press at the end of
this year. He can be reached via email at clodfelterm@ndu.edu and avidly supports Roy Williams and the basketball Tar Heels.
JOHN M. COX (PhD/2005/Jarausch) is in his fourth year as assistant professor of European history at Florida Gulf Coast University
in Fort Myers, FL. Cox’s first book was published in July 2009 (Circles of Resistance: Jewish, Leftist, and Youth Dissidence in Nazi
Germany, Peter Lang Publishing), and he is currently working on his second monograph To Kill a People: Genocide in the Twentieth
Century (Pearson Prentice Hall, 2011). During this last year, he also published a chapter in an edited volume (“From Rev. Wright to
‘Joe the Plumber’: Racial and Class Anxieties in the 2008 Elections,” for Race 2008: Critical Reflections on an Historic Election,
Myra Mendible, ed., 2010, pp. 77-97), as well as a book review for H-German. Cox presented a paper at the annual conference of the
American Historical Association in January 2010, and also spoke on book panels at the annual conferences of the Association for the
Studies of Nationalities and the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies during the spring semester. Cox directs his university’s Center
for Judaic, Holocaust, and Human Rights Studies. Email: jmcox@fgcu.edu.
JON G. CRAWFORD (PhD/1975/Baxter) is retiring from Roanoke College as Director of International Education, effective June 30
2010. He will reside in Mt Pleasant SC, quite near Charleston, and welcomes old friends. He published a review of Age of Atrocity
(ed. David Edwards et. al.) in Sixteenth Century Journal last year and conducted site visits at U Montpellier, U Nice and U Aix en
Provence in June.
ANASTASIA B. CROSSWHITE (MA/1997/Harris) is Associate Dean for Planning and Advisor to the Dean at the Leonard N. Stern
School of Business at New York University. She received an Executive MBA at Stern in 2009. Email: acrosswh@stern.nyu.edu.
CRAIG J. CURREY (MA/1991/Walker) continues as a colonel and the Director of the Directorate of Basic Combat Training at Fort
Jackson, South Carolina. The organization continues to run Victory University for the Army's Training and Doctrine Command, the
Experimentation and Analysis Element, the Army Physical Fitness School, and various proponents for Army programs. The last year
has been spent working in support of the Deputy Commanding General for Initial Military Training at Fort Monroe, Virginia. Our
focus remains to train the best possible Soldiers for the Army's field units.
CHRIS DALY (MA/1982/Fink) is teaching journalism and journalism history at Boston University. He has a book in the late stages
of publication titled Covering America, a narrative history of journalism in America, from 1704 through about 2008. It is due out early
in 2011 from UMass Press. This fall, he will co-teach a course with BU History Dept Chair Bruce Schulman on “Drafts of History,”
comparing how journalists and historians have treated selected events. He also blogs at http://journalismprofessor.com.
Email: cdaly@bu.edu.
MELVIN G. DEAILE (PhD/2007/Kohn) is currently the Strategy Division Chief at 608th Air and Space Operations Center at
Barksdale AFB, Louisiana. He returned last year after serving six months at the MNF-I Headquarters in Baghdad, Iraq, and will move
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this summer to a new job having been promoted to colonel. His submission “Sputnik, Missiles, and Nuclear War” will be published in
the upcoming book Battleground: War and Peace. Additionally, he is an adjunct professor with American Military University where
he teaches The American Revolution in Context, History of Technology and Culture, and History of the Gulf War.
Email: melvin.deaile@us.af.mil or mel651227@gmail.com.
W. CALVIN DICKINSON (PhD/1967/Baxter) retired from teaching at Tennessee Technological University in 2000. He is still busy
with history, serving on the Tennessee Historical Commission, Cookeville History Museum Board, and Cookeville Historic Zoning
Committee. He also works with the Tennessee Civil War Sesquicentennial celebration and remains active on a local speakers circuit
concerning various history topics. He has completed a book which will be published this summer; and he has written two essays about
early female medical doctors in Tennessee, one of which will be published this year. Email: cdickinson@tntech.edu.
ERIC J. ENGSTROM (PhD/1997/Jarausch) continues to work in the department of history at the Humboldt University in Berlin as
part of a research unit on "Cultures of Madness 1870-1930." For the commemoration of the Humboldt University's bicentennial, he
wrote a history of brain research and the neurosciences at the university that will be published in 2010 in Rüdiger vom Bruch's and
Elmar Tenorth's 1810 bis 2010: 200 Jahre Universität Unter den Linden. Geschichte der Universität zu Berlin. He also published a
survey of current historiography on forensic psychiatry for the journal Current Opinion in Psychiatry. He is also co-editor of a new
internet blog site on the history of psychiatry (http://historypsychiatry.wordpress.com). Email: engstroe@geschichte.hu-berlin.de.
WILLIAM MCKEE EVANS (MA/1950/Godfrey/PhD/1965/Tindall), Professor Emeritus, California State Polytechnic University,
Pomona. The University of Illinois Press published his book, Open Wound: The Long View of Race in America. He contributed an
article, “Will We Always be Preoccupied with Racism?,” to History News Network (HNN) and a paper, “Why Were Industrial Jobs in
the Antebellum North for Whites Only?” (presented by Prof. Todd Menzing) to the Working-Class Studies Association meeting in
Pittsburgh. In a trip to the Carolinas, he presented a paper “Why the Half-Century Delay between Emancipation and the Great
Migration,” at the Charleston, SC, Conference on Race, Labor and Citizenship in the Post-Emancipation South. Then at Carolina
Coastal University, Conway, he spoke to a student-faculty audience on an interpretive theme from Open Wound, “The Changing
Meaning of Color.” Here in North Carolina, he gave interviews to radio stations WCBQ (Oxford) and WPEK (Asheville) about his
new book as well as to the newspapers The Robesonian (Lumberton), The Independent (Durham), and The Seahawk (Wilmington). He
gave a reading and talk on “The Paradox of Harriet Beecher Stowe” at the Center for the Study of the American South, Chapel Hill.
Also, he spoke on the Open Wound’s principal theme: “Crises and Change in Racial Ideas and Behavior,” to a community-university
audience at UNC Pembroke and to “Alternative Spring Break” students at the Center for Community Action in Lumberton, and to
students and faculty at North Carolina Central, Durham, at St. Augustine College, Raleigh, at UNC Asheville, and at Mars Hill
College, Mars Hill. He spoke on “White Backlash and Today’s Impending Crisis” to a community-university audience at UNC
Wilmington and to a student-faculty audience at Wake Forest University. Email: wmckevans@netscape.net.
CHRISTOPHER FISCHER (MA/1998/PhD/2003/Jarausch) teaches modern European history at Indiana State University. Berghahn
Press published his book, Alsace to the Alsatians? Visions and Divisions of Alsatian Regionalism, 1871-1939 in February, 2010. He
also presented papers at the German Studies Association and the American Historical Association. He has published reviews in the
German Studies Review, The Canadian Journal of History, and with H-France. He remains an editor at H-German.
Email: Christopher.Fischer@indstate.edu.
NICHOLAS GANSON (PhD/Raleigh/2006) is Visiting Assistant Professor of History at the College of the Holy Cross (Worcester,
MA), teaching courses in Russian, European, and global history. In May 2009, his book, entitled The Soviet Famine of 1946-47 in
Global and Historical Perspective was published by Palgrave Macmillan. He has a chapter on “Food Supply, Rationing, and Living
Standards” in the forthcoming The Soviet Union in World War II with Pen & Sword (Barnsley, UK). His conference activity has
included participation in a roundtable entitled “Emigration from Russia and its Cultural Baggage” at the annual AAASS Convention in
Boston, MA (November 2009). Email: nganson@holycross.edu.
JERRY GERSHENHORN (PhD/2000/Leloudis) published “A Courageous Voice for Black Freedom: Louis Austin and the Carolina
Times in Depression-Era North Carolina” in the North Carolina Historical Review 87 (January 2010). He appeared as an on-screen
contributor and served as a consultant to Herskovits: At The Heart Of Blackness: A Sixty Minute Documentary (Vital Pictures, 2009),
which was broadcast on PBS in February 2010. He also was an invited discussant at a screening of the film at the Margaret Mead Film
Festival at the American Museum of Natural History in New York in November. He read a paper at the annual conference of the
Association for the Study of African American Life and History in October. His article, "Earlie Thorpe and the Struggle for Black
History, 1948-1989," will be published this year in Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society.
Email: jgershen@nccu.edu.
GLENDA E. GILMORE (PhD/1992/Painter) will be on leave from the History Department at Yale University on a National
Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship in 2010-2011. She will be in France and Ireland working on The Homeland of His
Imagination: Romare Bearden’s Southern Odyssey in Time and Space. She is also completing a history of the United States in the
twentieth century with Tom Sugrue of the University of Pennsylvania for W. W. Norton and Company. In 2009, she was elected a
Fellow of the Society of American Historians and served as Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of African American
Studies. She chaired the Merle Curti Prize Committee for the Organization of American Historians. She serves on the Executive
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Council of the Southern Historical Association and is a series editor for the Penguin History of American Life series and in the
Making of Modern America series at the University of Pennsylvania Press. This year she completed three essays, “’Am I a Screwball,
or Am I a Pioneer?’: Pauli Murray’s Civil Rights Movement,” in Walter Isaacson, ed., A Collection of Original Essays on Leadership
in American History (W. W. Norton, forthcoming 2010), “Somewhere: In the Nadir of African American History, 1890-1920.”
(February, 2010) at http://www.nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve, and “Which Southerners, Whose South? Teaching Southern
History at Yale,” forthcoming in the Yale Review (January 2011). During the year, she was a plenary speaker at the Southern
Association for Women Historians conference in Columbia, South Carolina, and gave invited lectures at the University of New
Hampshire, the University of Florida, Princeton University, and Temple University. Since she has been at Yale, she has directed 20
dissertations and is currently directing 13. Email: glenda.gilmore@yale.edu.
BRENT D. GLASS (PhD/1980/Kasson) is the director (since 2002) of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in
Washington, D.C. The Museum closed in 2006 for a major renovation and reopened in November, 2008. More than 6.5 million
people have visited in the past 18 months. New exhibitions have opened on Abraham Lincoln, maritime history, and the Star-Spangled
Banner. He has written op-ed articles for the Washington Post and Philadelphia Inquirer and the preface for books about Edwin Drake
and New England meetinghouses. In 2009, he delivered the keynote address at a conference in Prague, The Czech Republic; he
conducted a seminar for museum professionals in Belgrade, Serbia; and he served on the cultural exchange working group for the US-Russian
Bilateral Commission in Moscow, Russia. Email: glassb@si.edu.
STEVEN K. GREEN (MA/1987/Mathews/PhD/1997/Semonche) is a professor of law and adjunct professor of history at Willamette
University, where he teaches Constitutional Law, First Amendment, Church and State, and Legal History. He also directs an
interdisciplinary academic program at Willamette, the Center for Religion, Law and Democracy: www.willamette.edu/centers/crld. In
March 2010, his book, The Second Disestablishment: Church and State in Nineteenth-Century America, was published by Oxford
University Press. Email: sgreen@willamette.edu.
TOM HANCHETT (PhD/1993/Lotchin) remains busy in his tenth year as staff historian at Levine Museum of the New South in
Charlotte. Essays on “Charlotte,” “Urban Planning” and “Shout Bands” appeared in the Urbanization and Folklife volumes of the New
Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. His book Legacy: The Myers Park Story came out in a revised and updated edition. The Levine
Museum exhibit Changing Places about cultures colliding in today’s South, with Pamela Grundy (PhD/Kasson/1994) as lead curator
and Tom as assistant, won one of four national exhibition prizes awarded by the American Association of Museums. Tom’s previous
national prize winning exhibition, Courage: The Vision to End Segregation, the Guts to Fight for It, traveled to the Schomburg Center
for Research in Black Culture in New York City and the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles. Tom also curated a new exhibit for the
Museum of Tolerance: Para Todos Los Ninos: Fighting Segregation in California. A BBC crew filmed Tom on location in Atlanta’s
Inman Park discussing 1880s landscape planner Joseph Forsyth Johnson, whose descendant Bruce Forsyth is the subject of a
forthcoming edition of the history/genealogy TV series “Who Do You Think You Are?” Tom writes a monthly column on food
history, “Food from Home,” for the Charlotte Observer, and for the Latino newspaper Mi Gente a monthly column “Bienvenidos el
Nuevo Sur.” Daughter Lydia, who came to Tom’s dissertation defense as a newborn babe in arms, enters UNC Chapel Hill this fall.
Email: tom@historysouth.org.
JOHN HALL (PhD/2007/Higginbotham) became the inaugural holder of the Ambrose-Hesseltine Chair in U.S. Military History at
the University of Wisconsin in July 2009. Last fall, Harvard University Press published his first book, Uncommon Defense: Indian
Allies in the Black Hawk War. He is presently working on a military history of Indian Removal (among other projects) and just
completed an NEH summer institute with the D’Arcy McNickle for American Indian and Indigenous Studies at the Newberry Library
in Chicago.
J. LAURENCE HARE (PhD/2007/Jarausch) has been Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Emory & Henry College since 2007.
This year, he was also Director of Foundations I, an interdisciplinary humanities program for first-year students. In that role, he served
as general editor of the program textbook, Human Foundations: Knowledge, Ethics, and Community, which was published in January
2010. In October 2009, Laurence was invited by the UNC Center for European Studies to participate in a round table on experiential
learning at the annual conference of the Cultures and Languages across the Curriculum (CLAC) Consortium in Cleveland, OH. In the
summer of 2010, he will begin a new tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of History at the University of Arkansas.
JOHN HEPP (MA/1993/Hunt/PhD/1998/Filene) teaches American history and urban history (and the occasional World since 1945)
at Wilkes University. He continues on the Council of the Pennsylvania Historical Association and the editorial board of the
Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. Last year he was named editor of PHA’s Pennsylvania History Studies Series. One
of the highlights of his year was teaching a class that had a week-long London component (for the fifth time). He gave one
presentation at the National Council on Public History and was a commentator on panels at three other conferences. He also had book
reviews published in two journals. Email: john.hepp@wilkes.edu.
KIMBERLY D. HILL (MA/2004/PhD/2008/Brundage) teaches United States history at Del Mar College. She was nominated for the
Del Mar Teacher of the Year award in Spring 2010. And she was chosen to participate in the "Race and American Religion" summer
seminar at Calvin College. Her interview with Mr. Lemuel Delany, Jr. was published in the Spring 2009 issue of Southern Cultures.
Email: khill12@delmar.edu.
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GEORGE W. HOPKINS (PhD/1976/Mowry) retired in June 2009 after 32 years at the College of Charleston. Arriving in August
1976 on a one-year contract as a Visiting Assistant Professor, he later became Chair of the Department of History, Director of Urban
Studies, Coordinator of American Studies, Faculty Senator, and Faculty Senate President Pro Tem. He currently holds the rank of
Professor Emeritus of History and teaches one course a semester in support of the Urban Studies Program. He has presented numerous
conference papers, including an invited presentation at Oxford University in 2006 on "Diversity in US Public Higher Education." He
has published articles on US urban and labor history, twentieth century US social movements, the Vietnam War, and American
popular culture. His most recent article, "Union Reform and Labor Law: Miners For Democracy and the Use of the Landrum-Griffin
Act," is forthcoming in the Journal of Labor Research. He has reviews forthcoming in the Journal of Ethnic History and LABOR:
Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas. He is currently completing revisions of his book on Miners For Democracy:
Insurgency and Reform in the United Mine Workers of America, 1970-1981. A former state board chair of the Carolina Alliance for
Fair Employment [CAFÉ], he remains active in that organization as well as the South Carolina Progressive Network.
Email: hopkinsg@cofc.edu.
PATRICK HUBER (PhD/2000/Hall) is an associate professor of history at Missouri University of Science and Technology (formerly
the University of Missouri-Rolla). His book Linthead Stomp: The Creation of Country Music in the Piedmont South, published by the
University of North Carolina Press, won the 2009 Belmont Book Award for the Best Book on Country Music from Belmont University
and the 2009 Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound (Best Research in Recorded Country Music) from the Association for
Recorded Sound Collections. Email: huberp@mst.edu.
NAT C. HUGHES (MA/1956/PhD/1959/Green) published his book, Yale’s Confederates: A Biographical Dictionary, in winter 2009
(University of Tennessee Press). He is co-editing Jacob J. Oswandel’s Notes on the Mexican War, 1846-184 (Tennessee) and
contributing a chapter in Bergeron and Hewitt, Confederate Generals in the Western Theater (Tennessee).
Email: whardeej@hotmail.com.
CAROL SUE HUMPHREY (PhD/1985/Higginbotham) continues to teach American history at Oklahoma Baptist University. During
the 2009-2010 academic year, she was on a half-time sabbatical in order to work on two book projects related to the role of the press
during the American Revolution. She continues to serve as the Secretary of the American Journalism Historians Association and
attended the annual meeting of AJHA in Birmingham in October. She also continues to serve as the Faculty Athletics Representative
for OBU. She has been grading US History Advanced Placement Exams for 18 years. In June 2009 she served as an Exam Leader at
the grading session in Louisville, Kentucky, a position which entails finding samples and developing standards and rationales for the
grading process. Email: carol.humphrey@okbu.edu.
JOHN C. INSCOE (MA/1980/PhD/1984/Barney) has a book entitled Writing the South through the Self that will appear from UGA
Press in January. It is a collection of essays on southern autobiography, many of which are drawn from a course he’s taught at the
University of Georgia for the past twenty years or so. He was named the Albert B. Saye Professor of History and received the Lothar
Tresp Award as the outstanding teacher in the university’s honors program. He continues to edit the New Georgia Encyclopedia and
serves as secretary-treasurer of the Southern Historical Association. E-mail: jinscoe@uga.edu.
ERNEST H. JERNIGAN (MA/1951/Godfrey) and another 102 WWII Vets were flown on October 29, 2009 to the Baltimore-
Washington International Airport on a one-day mission to visit the WWII Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery with its Tomb of
the Unknowns, etc. The trip was sponsored by Honor Flight Ocala of the Honor Flight Network. Jernigan served in Germany with the
Third Army under General George Patton.
TRACY E. K’MEYER (PhD/1993/Filene) is chair of the Department of History at the University of Louisville, where she is also Co-
Director of the Oral History Center. In 2009 she published two books, a monograph Civil Rights in the Gateway to the South:
Louisville, Kentucky 1945-1980 (University Press of Kentucky) and an oral history collection Freedom on the Border: An Oral
History of the Civil Rights Movement in Kentucky (University Press of Kentucky, 2009), which was co-authored by Dr. Catherine
Fosl. In early 2010 K’Meyer also published “I Saw it Coming”: Worker Narratives of Plant Closings and Job Loss (Palgrave), which
was co-authored by Dr. Joy Hart.
ROBERT KORSTAD (PhD/1987/Fink) is Kevin D. Gorter Professor of Public Policy and History at Duke University. This spring,
the University of North Carolina Press published To Right These Wrongs: The North Carolina Fund and the Battle to End Poverty and
Inequality in 1960s America, coauthored with James Leloudis. Korstad and Leloudis are leading a new project called the Moral
Challenges of Poverty and Inequality in North Carolina. For more information on the book and the project see
www.torightthesewrongs.com.
SHARON A. KOWALSKY (MA/1998/PhD/2004/Raleigh) published Deviant Women: Female Crime and Criminology in
Revolutionary Russia, 1880-1930 (DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 2009). She received an International Faculty
Development Grant from Texas A&M University-Commerce and a Short Term Travel Grant from the International Research and
Exchanges Board (IREX) to conduct research in Moscow, Russia, in Summer 2010 for a new project on child support, alimony, and
domestic violence in revolutionary Russia. She published a book review in The Journal of Interdisciplinary History and served as
Program Committee Chair for the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies. She was awarded a Texas A&M University System
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Teaching Excellence Award. Email: Sharon_Kowalsky@tamu-commerce.edu.
TIM LEHMAN (M.A/1983/Ph.D/1988/Graham) wrote Bloodshed at Little Bighorn: Sitting Bull, Custer, and the Destinies of Nations
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010). He continues to teach at Rocky Mountain College in Billings, Montana, and is happy to
report that the college has hired a recent UNC graduate, Jenifer Parks, to join his department. This gives Rocky Mountain College the
highest percentage of Tar Heel historians in one department anywhere west of the Mississippi.
STUART LEIBIGER (MA/1989/PhD/1995/Higginbotham) is Associate Professor and Chair of the History Department at La Salle
University. He is an Organization of American Historians “Distinguished Lecturer.” He published “James Madison: Jack Rakove’s
Republican Revolutionary,” in Extensions: A Journal of the Carl Albert Congressional Research Studies Center, Winter 2010, 9-13.
(Online version: www.ou.edu/carlalbertcenter.) He also published “Slavery, the Constitution, and the Presidency,” “The American
Presidency,” and “Impeachment and the Constitution” in Presidents and the Constitution, vols. 1 and 2, The Bill of Rights Institute,
2009-2010, 1:68-70, 2:vi-ix, 106-9. He lectured on “James Madison: Republican Revolutionary,” at the David Library of the
American Revolution in Washington’s Crossing, Pennsylvania. Email: leibiger@lasalle.edu.
JAMES W. MARCUM (PhD/1970/Foust) is retired. He has the entry on Information Technology Literacy in the 3rd edition of
Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences (2010), co-authored with Denise O’Shea. His article, “Centers for New Learning:
Defining the Issues,” appeared in College and Undergraduate Libraries, 16:4 (2009): 358-362. Another article, co-authored with
Maria Jankowska, UCLA, is “Sustainability Challenge for Academic Libraries: Planning for the Future,” College and Research
Libraries, 71: 2 (March 2010): 160-170. Email: marcumjw9@aol.com.
SALLY MARKS (MA/1961/Pegg) has published her last book Paul Hymans: Belgium (London: Haus, 2010) in the Makers of the
Modern World Series about delegation heads at the 1919-1923 peace conferences. She has also participated in two Roundtables for H-Diplo.
Email: smarks@ric.edu.
ROY T. MATTHEWS (PhD/1966/Pegg) has revised, with his co-authors Dr. DeWitt Platt and Dr. Thomas Noble, the seventh
edition of their textbook, The Western Humanities (McGraw-Hill, 2011). The textbook is used in many colleges and universities and
continues to be one of McGraw-Hill’s best selling textbooks in their Higher Education Division. Roy has completed his novel about
the impact of World War II on his hometown which he hopes to have published within the year. He and LeeAnn are volunteers at the
National Gallery of Art, and they still enjoy life in Washington and visiting friends and family. Email: Matthew9@msu.edu.
ALAN MCPHERSON (PhD/2001/Hunt) is Associate Professor of International and Area Studies and ConocoPhillips Petroleum
Chair in Latin American Studies at the University of Oklahoma. He did little publishing this year but was the Central American
Visiting Scholar at Harvard University’s David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, where he wrote his next book, about
resistance to U.S. occupations in Latin America. He did publish a long entry on “Foreign Policy and Domestic Politics 1865-1933” in
The Princeton Encyclopedia of United States Political History, wrote online op-eds, and provided commentary on radio and
television. He wrote reviews in Reviews in American History, the Journal of American Studies, the Journal of American History, the
Hispanic American Historical Review, H-Diplo, history.transnational, and U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings. He gave talks at Harvard
and Arizona State University and lectured three times at the Foreign Service Institute in Virginia. Email: mcpherson@ou.edu.
PAULA MICHAELS (MA/1991/PhD/1997/Raleigh) continues as Associate Professor of History at the University of Iowa. This year
she expanded her teaching portfolio to include a new course on medicine and health in world history, a class she looks forward to
repeating in the fall of 2012, when she returns from her upcoming research leave. Michaels received grants from the Guggenheim
Foundation, the NEH, and the NIH for the 2010-11 and 2011-12 academic years to complete her book on the transnational history of
the Lamaze method (under contract with Oxford University Press). She spoke on this research during 2009-10 at the annual meeting
of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies in Boston, at a conference on Pain and Knowledge at Hebrew
University in Jerusalem, at Grand Rounds in UNC’s Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and at the University of Iowa’s
Women’s History month celebration. Her article on French women’s birth narratives recently appeared in the Journal of Perinatal
Education. Keep an eye out for her article on the Lamaze method and Cold War politics, slated to appear in the American Historical
Review in late 2010 or early 2011.
CARY MILLER (PhD/2004/Perdue) is teaching American Indian history courses at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. This
year her department voted to award her tenure and the University of Nebraska Press will publish her book Ogimaag: Ojibwe
leadership 1763-1845 in the fall of 2011. She also published a review in the Western Historical Quarterly. Email: carym@uwm.edu.
DANIEL R. MILLER (MA/1976/PhD/1987/Mathews) is teaching Latin American history and history methods at Calvin College in
Grand Rapids, Michigan. He recently translated Bearing the Marks of Jesus: A History of the Christian Reformed Church in Cuba, by
Eduardo Pedraza (Grand Rapids, MI: Calvin College and the Calvin Center for Christian Scholarship, 2009). He presented papers at the
International Conference on “Misión y Poder” in San José, Costa Rica, in June, 2009, and the Foro Internacional sobre “Patrimonio
Urbano y Cultural” in Monterrey, Mexico, in April, 2010. He published reviews in Journal of Latin American Studies and Fides et
Historia. Email: mill@calvin.edu.
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DAVID T. MORGAN (MA/1964/PhD/1968/Lefler) has been retired now for nearly 13 years and continues to enjoy it. He is finally
confident that he has the hang of it. He remains active—playing tennis, writing letters-to-the-editor, and promoting the ten books he
now has for sale, the last three of which he self-published. His latest, entitled A Blue Voice Crying in the Wilderness of a Red State, is
a compilation of his letters letters-to-the-editor (some published and some not) written over a twenty-year period. All of his books and
some other writings are available at www.amazon.com, a website that carries his author page. He also has a professional page online
at www.facebook.com-- David T. Morgan, Author. It lists his ten books that are currently available at Amazon and from his respective
publishers. Email: dtm1937@bellsouth.net or dtm1937@gmail.com.
PHILIP R. MULLER (PhD/1971/Klingberg) retired this year from Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), where
his clients had included the Intelligence Community, Defense Logistics Agency, Internal Revenue Service, Customs Service,
Securities and Exchange Commission, and Environmental Protection Agency. He resides with his wife, Aliceann, in Falls Church,
VA. Last October, he and Aliceann flew to Grand Junction, CO, to visit with Frank W. Klingberg. Email: pmuller@cox.net.
The History Department regrettably omitted the entry for Dr. George E. Munro from the 2009 Newsletter. We sincerely apologize for
the error. Dr. Monro’s 2009 and 2010 entries are listed below.
GEORGE E. MUNRO (PhD/2003/Griffiths) continues as Professor of History at Virginia Commonwealth University. His book The
Most Intentional City: St. Petersburg in the Reign of Catherine the Great was published by Fairleigh Dickinson University Press in
November, 2008. He published “Catherine Discovers St. Petersburg” in Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas. His book reviews
appeared in Slavic Review and Canadian-American Slavic Studies and an article “Elizabeth Petrovna” in Supplement to Modern
Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History. He also presented a paper at the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies. Email:
gemunro@vcu.edu.
GEORGE E. MUNRO (PhD/2003/Griffiths) is a professor of history at Virginia Commonwealth University. In May 2009 he gave a
subscription lecture on Siberia at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington that drew an audience of well over a hundred. In June he
served as study leader on a National Geographic Expeditions trip on the Trans-Siberian Railroad from Vladivostok to Moscow with a
two day side trip to Mongolia. He made the same trip in July for Smithsonian Journeys and again in September for both institutions. In
July he read a paper in Durham, England, at the international conference of the Study Group on Eighteenth-Century Russia. In January
he served on a panel at the AHA. A book review appeared in Slavic Review. In February 2010 he was named a Fulbright alumni
ambassador for a two-year term to represent the Fulbright program on various college and university campuses. A book-length
translation from Russian awaits publication: stay tuned. Email: gemunro@vcu.edu.
BRIAN NANCE (MA/1986/Headley/PhD/1991/McVaugh) is teaching early modern European history at Coastal Carolina University.
He has co-edited with F. Eliza Glaze and contributed to a collection of essays entitled Between Text and Patient: The Medical
Enterprise in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, to be published this summer in SISMEL's Micrologus Series (Firenzi, Edizioni del
Galluzzo). The volume features twenty-one essays stemming from a 2007 conference held in UNC's Wilson Library in honor of
Michael McVaugh's retirement from teaching. Nance's essay is entitled "The Arena and the Study: Medical Practice in Turquet de
Mayerne's Treatment of Robert Cecil." He published book reviews for H-Sci-Med-Tech and Renaissance Quarterly (forthcoming),
chaired a session at the American Association for the History of Medicine's Annual Conference, and completed a three-year term on
the Editorial Board of the Bulletin of the History of Medicine.
P. BRADLEY NUTTING (MA/1968/PhD/1972/Lefler) retired from the History Department at Framingham State College,
Framingham, MA in December 2009 after 34 years of service. He continues to act as an academic advisor and Coordinator of the
Liberal Studies Program. The Journal of Family History is scheduled to publish his article, "Absent Husbands, Single Wives: Success
and Domesticity in the 19th Century Great Lakes World," in October 2010. He is currently completing an article on the career path of
a Victorian bookkeeper-forwarding merchant--railroad station master. Email: pnutting@framingham.edu.
GAIL WILLIAMS O’BRIEN (PhD/1975/Mathews) wrote the “Historical Essay” for A Red Family: Junius, Gladys & Barbara
Scales, edited by Mickey Friedman with an Afterward by Barbara Scales, University of Illinois Press, 2009, and has a forthcoming
article, “Civil Rights Era Violence,” in The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, vol. 22, Violence, edited by Amy Wood, Center
for the Study of Southern Culture, UNC Press. Although retired from teaching, Gail continues to serve on the Board of Editors for the
NC Historical Review and the NC Historical Markers Committee.
EDWARD (TED) PHILLIPS (PhD/1990/Griffiths) was promoted to Director of Exhibitions and Resources at the United States
Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C., in May 2009. In that position, he oversees the museum’s permanent, special, and
traveling exhibitions programs. In January 2010, he presented “Non-Jewish Victims of the Nazi Era: The Persecution of Homosexuals
in the Third Reich” at a national teachers conference in Opatija, Croatia, sponsored by the Republic of Croatia’s Education and
Teacher Training Agency. In March 2010, he spent three weeks in Poland meeting with the leadership of the major Holocaust
memorials and museums. Email: ephillips@ushmm.org.
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VIRGINIA F. RAINEY (PhD/1980/Taylor) is Stated Clerk for the Presbytery of Huntingdon (P.C.U.S.A.). She is a member of the
Board of Directors of the Presbyterian Historical Society.
KRISTOFER RAY (PhD/2003/Watson) has been teaching early American history at Austin Peay State University. In addition, he
has written essays on the “Corrupt Bargain” of 1825 for a forthcoming edited collection on Jacksonian America, and on A Summary
View of the Rights of British North America for a forthcoming edited collection on Thomas Jefferson. Volume five of The Papers of
Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, the last volume on which he worked, was also published last year. In addition, he’s delivered
papers on the State of Franklin at the 31st annual conference of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, on Thomas
Jefferson at the 2009 Virginia Forum, and on new directions in Tennessee historiography for the Tennessee Historical Society. Most
recently, he was appointed senior editor of the Tennessee Historical Quarterly. Feel free to submit anything you think is relevant!
Email: rayk@apsu.edu.
JEFF RICHARDSON (MA/1996/Barney) is Senior Vice President / Director, Corporate Development & Investor Relations at Fifth
Third Bank in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is responsible for mergers and acquisitions and investor communications for the bank and has
been with Fifth Third since 2006. Jeff and Missy live across the river in Newport, Kentucky, in the South.
Email: jeff.richardson@alumni.wfu.edu.
JOHN M. RIDDLE (MA/1961/Caldwell/PhD/1963/MacKinney) has retired from North Carolina State University but continues to
teach part-time. In the last two years he has published two books: Goddesses, Elixirs, and Witches, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, 213
pp.; and A History of the Middle Ages, 300-1500, Rowman & Littlefield, Publishers, 2008, 509 pp. Email: john_riddle@ncsu.edu.
JENNIFER RITTERHOUSE (MA/1994/PhD/1999/Hall, Lebsock) is starting a new job as Associate Professor of History at George
Mason University. She recently published an article, "Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the
South," in the online journal Southern Spaces (www.southernspaces.org) and especially invites readers to check it out for a photo of
UNC's own Bill Leuchtenburg at age 15. She commented on a panel and chaired a prize committee for the Southern Association for
Women Historians in 2009 and is now the chair of the SAWH Mentoring Committee. She would welcome suggestions and feedback
on the online Mentoring Toolkit at http://www.h-net.org/~sawh/Toolkit/. Her most recent book reviews appeared on H-South and in
the Journal of Social History. She participated in a roundtable at the July 2009 meeting of the Society for the History of Children and
Youth and commented on a panel at UNC's New Perspectives on African-American History and Culture Conference in February
2010. Email: jritterh@gmu.edu.
BLAIN ROBERTS (MA/2000/PhD/2005/Hall) is assistant professor of history at California State University, Fresno, where she
teaches courses in modern U.S. and women’s history. Blain spent much of 2009-2010 writing about memory, tourism, and history in
Charleston, South Carolina along with her husband and colleague, Ethan J. Kytle. They co-wrote an editorial for the History News
Network, “How McDonnell’s Remarks Could Jeopardize Southern Tourism” (4/19/10), as well as an essay entitled “‘Is It Okay to
Talk about Slaves?’: Segregating the Past in Historic Charleston,” which will appear in Dixie Passages: Tourism and Southern
History, edited by Karen L. Cox (University Press of Florida, forthcoming). She gave a paper based on this research at the Conference
on Race, Labor, and Citizenship in the Post-Emancipation South in Charleston in March. She was awarded both university- and
college-level research awards to work on her book manuscript, Pretty Women: Female Beauty in the Jim Crow and Civil Rights South.
She also published book reviews in the Journal of Southern History and Louisiana History and served as a master teacher for the
Clovis Unified School District’s Teaching American History Grant.
EDWARD E. ROSLOF (PhD/1994/Raleigh) was appointed Executive Director of the Council for International Exchange of Scholars
(CIES) in April 2010. CIES, a division of the Institute of International Education (IIE), administers the worldwide Fulbright Scholar
Program for the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State. As Deputy Vice-President of IIE, he also
oversees administration of the Humphrey Fellowship Program, which is a Fulbright activity that brings over 200 mid-career
professionals from 126 developing countries to the USA each year for academic study and professional development. During seven
years with IIE, Ed has also served as the Fulbright Director in Russia and Director of the Humphrey Fellowship Program.
Email: eroslof@iie.org.
JOHN HERBERT (JACK) ROPER (MA/1973/PhD/1977/Williamson) teaches at Emory & Henry College (EHC) in Virginia. The
University of South Carolina Press will publish his book The Magnificent Mays: a Biography of Benjamin Elijah Mays, in 2011. He
was a Hope Award recipient for 2010 (EHC was national recipient, Roper was individual recipient). He received an Excellence in
Teaching Award for 2010 (voted by graduating seniors), and served also in various roles at EHC: Director of Graduate Studies,
Sponsor for Blue Key Service Honorary for Men, national secretary for Blue Key International, and sponsor for Cardinal Key Service
Honorary for Women. He was also Venturer Crew Chief for Co-ed BSA Crew 79, member of Program Committee for Sequoyah
Council BSA, member of program committee for Southwestern Virginia Higher Education Center, and member of planning
committee, Historical Society of Washington County (VA) Civil War Commemoration.
MOLLY P. ROZUM (PhD/2001/Lotchin) edited and wrote the introduction to the dual memoir, Small-town Boy, Small-town Girl:
Growing Up in South Dakota, 1920-1950, by Eric B. Fowler and Sheila Delaney, Pierre: South Dakota State Historical Society Press,
2009. The book won a gold medal from the 2010 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the category of Mid-West—Best Regional
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Non-Fiction. She also published two book notices for The Annals of Iowa and served on the Regional Phi Alpha Theta Graduate
Student Prize Committee for the best paper presented at the 2010 Missouri Valley History Conference.
Email: molly.rozum@doane.edu.
DAVID SARTORIUS (MA/1997/PhD/2003/Pérez) published (with María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo) “Revolution,” in Social Text
100, as well as a book review of Matthew D. Childs, The 1812 Aponte Rebellion in Cuba and the Struggle against Atlantic Slavery,
for H-Atlantic. He traveled to Brazil in June 2009 and presented “Travel, Passports, and the Boundaries of Race in Nineteenth-
Century Cuba” at the meeting of the Latin American Studies Association, and he gave an invited lecture at the Universidade Federal
Rural do Rio de Janeiro in Nova Iguaçu titled “Meus Vasalhos: Milicias de Côr e os Fines do Imperio Espanhol.” In July, he traveled
to Mexico to present “Revolution Will Be an Aspirin the Size of the Sun” at the Tepoztlán Institute for the Transnational History of
the Americas. He returned to North Carolina in October to deliver comments at the Latin American Labor History Conference at
Duke. And in April he presented “On Becoming Spanish: Repudiating Citizenship and the Elusive Pure Race in Cuba’s Last Indian
Pueblos” at the “Inventing Race in the Americas” conference at the University of Chicago. He continues to serve on the collectives of
Social Text and the Tepoztlán Institute. Email: das@umd.edu.
WILLIAM K. SCARBOROUGH (PhD/1962/Green) began a two-year phased retirement on June 1. His book manuscript, The
Allistons of Chicora Wood: Wealth, Honor, and Gentility in the South Carolina Lowcountry, has been accepted for publication by
LSU Press and is scheduled for publication in fall, 2011.
PETER J. SCHIFFERLE (MA/1981/Weinberg) continues to direct the Advanced Operational Art Studies Fellowship at the School
of Advanced Military Studies, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. His current teaching focus is the use of design in
whole-of-government and military operations. The University Press of Kansas just published his first book, America's School for War:
Fort Leavenworth, Officer Education, and Victory in World War II. He continues to research the interwar period, and is working on
articles for The Journal of Military History and Military Review, as well as having delivered papers at the Society for Military History
annual meeting and at Missouri State University's Taiwan and China annual conference. He submitted reviews to JMH, Army History
and Military Review, and is working on a review for Global War Studies. He reports it was great to visit with Professor Weinberg at
the SMH meeting at the Virginia Military Institute. Email: pjschifferle@kc.rr.com.
ARTHUR KANE SCOTT (ABD/1967/Foust) teaches Islamic/Native/Latin American Studies at Dominican University of California.
He offers an Islamic Intensive emphasizing the theme of “diversity” every year for public school/humanities teachers. He presented a
paper at International Conference on Sufism on “Ecological Imperatives of Quran” last summer in San Rafael, California, and writes
regularly in Sufism: An Inquiry. Similarly he writes on-line essays on contemporary events about Middle East/ United states in
“Journal of America.Org.” His most recent essay was “Who Rules America?” In January, 2010, with other Dominican colleagues he
traveled to Egypt. In addition, he has taken the lead in organizing experiential educational travel to Ecuador, and to El Salvador as part
of SOA Watch in honor of Archbishop Oscar Romero’s assassination, as well as raising ecological awareness in Marin County within
the Latino Community through “Viviendo Verde Program.” He is currently immersed in a biography on Cochise entitled: “Cochise
and His Times” which he presented as an academic scholar to his Dominican peers in spring 2010. Finally he led faculty and students
into Sacred Geography of Southwest: Chaco, Mesa Verde, and Canyon De Chelly. He currently is a Board Member at the Marin
Museum of American Indian. Email: scott@dominican.edu.
J. ROBERT SHEPPARD, JR. (MA/1971/Cecil) is teaching International Project Finance in the MBA program at the Moore School
of Business of the University of South Carolina. He also began work as an Instructor in Stanford University’s Global Infrastructure
Forum. He continues his consulting for the US Government’s Millennium Challenge Corporation, working on a wastewater treatment
project in Jordan, and for the United Nations, working on an assignment in Tanzania to implement structures to develop and finance
small-scale infrastructure projects. He is also engaged to arrange financing for a series of fly ash treatment facilities for US electric
power plants and continues to be active as a member of the board of directors of New Generation Biofuels, a renewable fuels
manufacturer listed on NASDAQ. Email: projfin@bellsouth.net.
ALICE ALMOND SHROCK (MA/1970/PhD/1974/Mowry) and RANDALL SHROCK (PhD/1979/Higginbotham) serve as co-chairs
of the History Department at Earlham College and continue in the 36th year of their shared appointment teaching U.S. history.
An article focusing on their shared appointment (Inside Higher Education, January 22, 2010) described them as "pioneers in forging a
path for spouses hoping to balance dual passions of scholarship and family." It is believed that theirs is the longest running shared
appointment in the U.S. Alice continues her research on Quaker reformers; her latest essay on Lucretia Mott appeared in the Oxford
International Encyclopedia of Peace. Randall's article on Alexander Spotswood will appear in Encyclopedia Virginia.
Email: randalls@earlham.edu, alices@earlham.edu.
BLAKE SLONECKER (MA/2006/PhD/2009/Filene) is teaching American history at Waldorf College in Forest City, Iowa. Last
October he delivered a lecture entitled “We are Marshall Bloom: Suicide and the Collective Memory of the Sixties” at the University
of Massachusetts, Amherst’s fifth annual Colloquium on Social Change. An expanded version of the paper will be published in the
December 2010 issue of The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics and Culture. He published reviews in the Journal of American
History, The Sixties, and Columbia. In April Waldorf College selected him as its 2010 Professor of the Year, which is awarded
annually to the College’s most outstanding teacher. Email: blake.slonecker@waldorf.edu.
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CHRISTINA SNYDER (PhD/2007/Perdue) is currently an assistant professor of History and American Studies at Indiana University,
Bloomington. Her first book, Slavery in Indian Country: The Changing Face of Captivity in Early America was released in March
2010 by Harvard University Press. She has received several grants, including grants from IU's New Frontiers in the Arts and
Humanities and the College Arts and Humanities Institute, in support of her next book project tentatively entitled The Indian
Gentlemen of Choctaw Academy: Status and Sovereignty in Antebellum America.
CINDY SPEAS (MA/1975/Baxter) is Director of Community Affairs for the Washington Regional Transplant Community (WRTC)
in Annandale, Virginia. WRTC is the federally designated organ, eye and tissue recovery agency for the Washington, DC area. Her
team is responsible for all donation awareness and educational programming, advertising, media relations, Donor Registry
maintenance in three states, as well as providing the bereavement support of all donor families whose loved ones have given the gift of
life. She serves on the Donate Life America Donor Designation Faculty, as President of Donate Life Virginia, team leader of Donate
Life DC, and on the advisory board of Donate Life Maryland. She has worked on the design and development of various donation
websites, including www.BeADonor.org. Email: cindy@wrtc.org.
ROSE STREMLAU (PhD/2005/Perdue) has had a busy and productive year. With a partial course-release provided by an American
fellowship from the American Association for University Women, she completed her book manuscript on Cherokee families during
the allotment era, scheduled to be published by the University of North Carolina Press in fall 2011. She presented three papers,
including at the 2009 meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory and at the Conference for American Indian Women of Proud
Nations. Her essay on Sarah Winnemucca and sexual violence against American Indian women in the West has been included in the
7th edition of Women's America, the popular reader edited by Linda K. Kerber, Jane Sherron De Hart and Cornelia H. Dayton. Lastly,
several years of hard work culminated in the creation of a student and faculty exchange program between the University of North
Carolina at Pembroke, which is a historically American Indian university, and the University College of the North, a First Nations-serving
university in northern Canada, and Rose looks forward to leading a student trip next year. Email: stremlau@alumni.unc.edu.
JERRY B. THOMAS (MA/1967/PhD/1971/Douglass) retired from teaching at Shepherd University in Shepherdstown, West
Virginia in May, 2009. His An Appalachian New Deal: West Virginia in the Great Depression, originally published by University
Press of Kentucky in 1998, was published in a paperback edition by West Virginia University Press in April, 2010. He has also written
An Appalachian Reawakening: West Virginia and the Perils of the New Machine Age, 1945-1972, forthcoming from West Virginia
University Press in fall 2010. He and wife Vicky continue to reside in Shepherdstown. Email: vthomas2@frontiernet.net.
KAREN KRUSE THOMAS (MA/1995/PhD/1999/Leloudis) is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of the History of Medicine at the
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, where she is writing a history of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. She presented two
conference papers in 2010, "Medical Education as an Anomaly of Desegregation: Public Policy Efforts to Recruit Black Physicians" at
OAH in April and "Public Health Rising: Thomas Parran, Lowell Reed, and the Triumph of the M.P.H., 1935-1955" at the American
Association of the History of Medicine in May.
CAROLE WATTERSON TROXLER (MA/1966/PhD1974/Baxter) enjoys being a footloose historian as Professor Emeritus of
History, Elon University. In the past year, she presented the following papers: “Uses of the Bahama Islands by Southern Loyalist
Exiles,” Conference on Loyalism and the Revolutionary Atlantic World, University of Maine, Orono, June 4-7, 2009; “Beyond the
Reach of His Majesty? Two Granville County, North Carolina, Challengers of Local Corruption c. 1765,” Consortium on the
Revolutionary Era, Charleston, S.C., February 26-27, 2010; “Labor Supply and Reconstruction Violence in a North Carolina Piedmont
County,” Conference on Race, Labor and Citizenship in the Post-Emancipation South, Charleston, S.C., March 11